ANNOUNCE: Version 4.14 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Apr 5 13:48:24 IST 2003


Shutdown all the sendmail processes before starting MailScanner for the
first time.
         /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
then
         ps ax | grep -i mail
and kill any leftovers. Then when you start MailScanner it should work.

At 02:18 05/04/2003, you wrote:
>I tried these suggestions but the RaQ has a problem that can wait till morning
>
>:-(
>
>Joe Quinn
>www.qitc.net
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:00 PM
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Version 4.14 released
>
>
>At 17:20 04/04/2003, you wrote:
> >I got that too, but I manually deleted var/run/sendmail*, killed all the
> >sendmail processes then it was fine (although thinking on it now I'm not
> >sure it was necessary).  I think maybe the sendmail.in.pid is new for this
> >version so the new init script couldn't find it because when you started
> >it (with the old version) it wasn't created.
>
>Yes, that's it. The restart tries to kill the old sendmail processes using
>the new pid file which won't exist yet.
>This will only occur once. You could avoid it by stopping the old
>MailScanner before upgrading to the new one.
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brian May [mailto:brian at UNEARTHED.ORG]
> > > Sent: 04 April 2003 17:11
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] ANNOUNCE: Version 4.14 released
> > >
> > >
> > > After the upgrade; when I restart MailScanner I get this message:
> > >
> > > Latest MAilScanner, RedHat 7.3 all up2date...
> > >
> > > Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> > >          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
> > >          incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid:
> > > No such file or
> > > directory
> > >                                                            [  OK  ]
> > >          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
> > > Starting MailScanner daemons:
> > >          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
> > >          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
> > >          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>Julian Field
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>Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support



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