mailscanner dying

[Darrin Powell]

I have been having problems with mailscanner right after I installed the
latest RPM mailscanner-3.03-1.i386.rpm. I also installed the latest
Sophos tar file sweep version

sweep -v

Product version           : 3.53
Engine version            : 2.6
User interface version    : 2.03.079
Platform                  : Linux/Intel
Released                  : 07 January 2002
Total viruses (with IDEs) : 71192

Redhat 7.1 with all the updates

The /var/spool/mqueue.in the last couple of mornings has been full and
it takes restarting mailscanner to clear them out. I also turned off
spam thinking this was the problem. I see below that Julian added "/" to
the main source to fix the problem with mail scanner dying. So maybe my
problem is not related, but this seemed the closest email to my problem.
I have modified my mailscanner.conf to Delivery Method = batch and to
not do spam everything else is defualt. One thing I did notice on
install is /usr/local/Sophos/bin was not in my path. I don't remember
this error showing up on earlier installs and for the life of me I cant
get the path to stay. The root shell is korn. So I continued with the
install.Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also wanted to say good
job to Julian this has been a great security tool.








On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 05:00, Julian Field wrote:
> At 10:53 08/01/2002, you wrote:
> >Maybe you could do both  .    $BASEDIR\/  first, then just $BASEDIR  - the
> >second should just do nothing (If we are right).
>
> I've added the "/" to the main source. That's definitely what appears to work.
>
> >Did you have any good test emails that have a high chance of sigv'ing
> >mailscanner ? or are you pretty happy with your mod of getting rid of the
> >do_compile(). ?
>
> The do_compile() was to solve SpamAssassin problems, the regexp tweaks were
> to solve the segv'ing problem.
>
> I'm happy it all works now...
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
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Darrin Powell
System Administrator
LSSi, Corp.
(919) 466-6803