Newbie question.. mailscanner fail to start with mcafee

[Julian Field]

At 14:12 05/07/2002, you wrote:
>I've installed the mailscanner
>RedHat Linux RPM package version 3.21-1
>and the latest McAfee uvscan to my comp
>
>The installation of Mailscanner passed without
>any errors and I change the mailscann.conf
>to point to mcafee
>
>But when I try to start it I get the following msg
>
>root at knubbis root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner start
>Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       Configuration file /opt/sophos/bin/sophoswrapper
>could not be opened for reading! at /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/logger.pl
>line 64.
>[  OK  ]
>
>I tried to change the line in config.pl to use mcafee
>but no change.

You shouldn't be editing that at all.

>Since Im not good at script I dont wanna mess around so Im
>hoping you can give me some information
>Packages are instlled under
>/usr/local/Mailscanner
>/usr/local/uvscan

You say you changed "mailscann.conf". That's not what the configuration
file is called, it's "mailscanner.conf".
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