Installation on RAQ4

[Julian Field]

At 17:54 07/03/2002, you wrote:
>I found some issues installing Mailscanner on a Cobalt RAQ4. I installed
>from the rpm file.
>
>1) In config.pl there are references to /opt/ even though both Mailscanner
>and Sophos are installed under /usr/local/.

That doesn't matter, as all the paths are over-ridden by the contents of
mailscanner.conf anyway.

>2) The queue munching instance of Sendmail did not do anything with the
>contents of /var/spool/mqueue until I explicitely told it where the queue
>was in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner script.
>  $SENDMAIL -q15m
>had to be changed to
>  $SENDMAIL -q15m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
>
>2) A new script was installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d called "mailscanner". The
>Cobalt will restart the Sendmail process whenever any mail settings are
>changed. I found the best solution was to save the old "sendmail" script to
>a backup and make a hybrid of the "sendmail" and "mailscanner" script so as
>far as the Cobalt is concerned it is business as usual.

There is a FAQ all about doing this on the UK2NET RAQ-hosting website. I'm
sure one of the UK2NET guys can provide you with the exact URL if Google
can't find it.
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