SV: Newbie question.. mailscanner fail to start with mcafee
Anders Andersson, IT
andersan at LTKALMAR.SE
Fri Jul 5 14:59:54 IST 2002
>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.
I changed it back, I just tried it but it didnt help
>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".
Sorry, a typo from me
I changed the lines in mailscanner.conf to use mcaffe
Virus scanner = mcafee
mcafee = /usr/local/uvscann/mcafeewrapper
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