SV: Newbie question.. mailscanner fail to start with mcafee
Desai, Jason
jase at SENSIS.COM
Fri Jul 5 15:44:08 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
^^^^^^
Shouldn't that be "Sweep = /usr/local/uvscann/mcafeewrapper" ?
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