major problems with MailScanner install

[Julian Field]

At 15:18 14/05/2002, you wrote:
>Im trying to install MailScanner on a Linux Mandrake 6.2 machine. I cannot
>use the current rpm file as it fails alot od dependancies. I am trying to
>use the tar file.
>
>When I do a check_mailscanner I get this output.
>
>Starting virus scanner...
>Can't locate stdarg.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?) (@INC contains:
>/opt/mailscanner/bin /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/sys/syslog.ph line 7.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/mailscanner/bin/logger.pl line
>36.

Start by reading the docs for h2ph, as Perl can't find the perl versions of
the header files it needs. Without this, MailScanner won't start at all.

>If I use the check_mailscanner.linux I get this output everytime.
>
>Starting virus scanner...
>Virus scanning report  -  14. May 2002   7:18
>
>F-PROT 3.12
>SIGN.DEF created 18. March 2002
>SIGN2.DEF created 18. March 2002
>MACRO.DEF created 15. March 2002
>
>Search: /opt/mailscanner/etc/mailscanner.conf
>Action: Report only
>Files: Attempt to identify files
>Switches: <none>
>
>
>Results of virus scanning:
>
>Files: 1
>MBRs: 0
>Boot sectors: 0
>Objects scanned: 1
>
>Time: 0:00
>
>No viruses or suspicious files/boot sectors were found.
>
>If I run this command again it should show a pid of the running virus
>scanner but does not which leads nme to believe the scanner is not
>running. Im using f-prot. I made sure I changed the virus scanner in the
>mailscanner.conf file to f-prot.
>
>If I perform a ps -aux | grep sendmail I get
>
>accepting
>q15m
>
>So i think I configured sendmail correctly. It does put incomming messages
>in the mqueue.in directory but doesnt seem to scan them and move them into
>the mqueue directory.
>
>HELP

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