Startup script
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Nov 5 17:02:33 GMT 2002
At 15:44 05/11/2002, you wrote:
>Does your installation therefore require that the MailScanner & sendmail
>init scripts both have to be started?
No. The 2 sendmail processes required by MailScanner are both started by
the MailScanner startup script.
> If this is the case, the only
>problem is that on reboot, only MailScanner will start, since when it was
>installed, sendmail was 'switched off' with chkconfig.
That's correct.
> > hi,
> >
> > I modified the sendmail init script to use the "queue delivery mode" :
> > daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> > -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> >
> > and modified the mailscanner init script and comented out every thing
> > about sendmail ...
> >
> > i found some very usefull explanation on the rackshack forum
> > (http://forum.rackshack.net), you should give look...
> >
> > i you want, i can send my modified startup scripts ...
> >
> > hth
> >
> > fred
> >
> > PS sorry for my poor english :(
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 14:35, Andrew G Allen wrote:
> >> No luck :( I've tried doing this in the MailScanner.conf and in the
> >> MailScanner startup script. There are no errors produced this time,
> >> but no bandwidth is recorded.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway to decompile the shared library
> >> (/lib/libensimvwhbw.so)? I've attached the whole sendmail init script
> >> incase you can see something that can be copied/added to the
> >> MailScanner script. Is there someway of running MailScanner, but call
> >> sendmail using it's own init script? Just looking for ideas...
> >>
> >> Andrew G Allen
> >> email: mail at projectandrew.com | voice: +44 (0) 7958 540596
> >>
> >> --- Disclaimer ---
> >> This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
> >> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
> >> are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify
> >> the system manager.
> >>
> >> > I'm not at all convinced this will work, but give it a try:
> >> > Write a very short script that sets these variables and then calls
> >> sendmail, something like this
> >> >
> >> > #!/bin/sh
> >> > export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libensimvwhbw.so
> >> > export ENSIMVWH_BWSVCID=1
> >> > /usr/sbin/sendmail "$@"
> >> >
> >> > and then call this script in MailScanner instead of directly
> >> invoking sendmail. You should just edit the "Sendmail =" setting in
> >> > MailScanner.conf to refer to your script instead of sendmail
> >> itself.
> >> >
> >> > See what happens with this setup.
> >> >
> >> > At 18:42 04/11/2002, you wrote:
> >> >>I am still trying to get MailScanner fully working with Ensim
> >> >> WEBppliance - the only part that is not working is a piece of
> >> custom ensim code that is normally called from the sendmail startup
> >> script. The two lines are:
> >> >>
> >> >> export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libensimvwhbw.so
> >> >> export ENSIMVWH_BWSVCID=1
> >> >>
> >> >>If I add these to the MailScanner startup script, MailScanner will
> >> >> accept mail, but will not deliver it to any chrooted site. I also
> >> get file not found errors thrown to the console. It seems to me
> >> then, to be something that must be passed from the sendmail config
> >> for this module to work, which is not passed by MailScanner - it is
> >> supposed to track the size of each mail passed through sendmail, so
> >> a monthly 'bandwidth allowance' can be applied to each virtual site
> >> within Ensim. I don't really know where to go next, and wondered if
> >> anybody who knows sendmail in more detail might have any ideas
> >> where to look?
> >> >>
> >> >>Does MailScanner refer to all the same sendmail config files that
> >> >> sendmail would if it was called using its own startup script?
> >> >>
> >> >>Andrew G Allen
> >> >>email: mail at projectandrew.com | voice: +44 (0) 7958 540596
> >> >>
> >> >>--- Disclaimer ---
> >> >>This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
> >> >> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom
> >> they are addressed. If you have received this email in error,
> >> please notify the system manager.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>--
> >> >>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
> >> >>content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager
> >> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> >> Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton
> >> > Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
> >> > content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
> >> content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
> >
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >> #
> >> # sendmail This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
> >> # sendmail.
> >> #
> >> # chkconfig: 2345 80 30
> >> # description: Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the
> >> program \ # that moves mail from one machine to another.
> >> # processname: sendmail
> >> # config: /etc/sendmail.cf
> >> # pidfile: /var/run/sendmail.pid
> >>
> >> # Source function library.
> >> . /etc/init.d/functions
> >>
> >> # Source networking configuration.
> >> . /etc/sysconfig/network
> >>
> >> # Source sendmail configureation.
> >> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/sendmail ] ; then
> >> . /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
> >> else
> >> DAEMON=no
> >> QUEUE=1h
> >> fi
> >>
> >> # Check that networking is up.
> >> [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
> >>
> >> [ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ] || exit 0
> >>
> >> RETVAL=0
> >> prog="sendmail"
> >>
> >> start() {
> >> # Start daemons.
> >>
> >> echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
> >> /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
> >> for i in virtusertable access domaintable ; do
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
> >> makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
> >> fi
> >> done
> >> mailertables=
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/mailertable.virtual_domains ]; then
> >> mailertables="/etc/mail/mailertable.virtual_domains"
> >> fi
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/mailertable ]; then
> >> mailertables="$mailertables /etc/mail/mailertable"
> >> fi
> >> if [ -n "$mailertables" ]; then
> >> cat $mailertables | makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable.db
> >> fi
> >> genericstables=
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/genericstable.siteadmins ]; then
> >> genericstables="/etc/mail/genericstable.siteadmins"
> >> fi
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/genericstable ]; then
> >> genericstables="$mailertables /etc/mail/genericstable"
> >> fi
> >> if [ -n "$genericstables" ]; then
> >> cat $genericstables | makemap hash
> >> /etc/mail/genericstable.db
> >> fi
> >> export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libensimvwhbw.so
> >> export ENSIMVWH_BWSVCID=1
> >> daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
> >> $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> echo
> >> [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
> >> return $RETVAL
> >> }
> >>
> >> start-fast() {
> >> # Start daemons.
> >>
> >> echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
> >> /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
> >> for i in virtusertable access domaintable ; do
> >> if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
> >> makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
> >> fi
> >> done
> >> export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libensimvwhbw.so
> >> export ENSIMVWH_BWSVCID=1
> >> daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
> >> $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> echo
> >> [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
> >> return $RETVAL
> >> }
> >>
> >> stop() {
> >> # Stop daemons.
> >> echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
> >> killproc sendmail
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> echo
> >> [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
> >> return $RETVAL
> >> }
> >>
> >> # See how we were called.
> >> case "$1" in
> >> start)
> >> start
> >> ;;
> >> start-fast)
> >> start-fast
> >> ;;
> >> stop)
> >> stop
> >> ;;
> >> restart|reload)
> >> stop
> >> start
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> ;;
> >> condrestart)
> >> if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail ]; then
> >> stop
> >> start
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> fi
> >> ;;
> >> status)
> >> status sendmail
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> ;;
> >> restart-fast)
> >> stop
> >> start-fast
> >> RETVAL=$?
> >> ;;
> >> *)
> >> echo $"Usage: $0
> >> {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status|start-fast|restart-fast}"
> >> exit 1
> >> esac
> >>
> >> exit $RETVAL
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
> > content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
>
>
>
>
>--
>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
>content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
--
Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
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