Mailscanner setup (sendmail start script)

[Wilfred Bolten]

Hi,

Same problem here. SuseLinux 9 with sendmail. Even when you change the line mentioned at the page and restart sendmail the scanner does not seem to be present. Havent been able to figure this out yet. 

WB

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Cooper [mailto:alc at TLYNX.COM]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:39 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mailscanner setup (sendmail start script)


I am setting up mailscanner on a Redhat 9 box.  I am following the
instructions provided by Julian Field at the following link:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/sendmail.shtml

I am at the point of modifying the sendmail start script in
/etc/rc.d/init.d.  The instructions are as follows:

"Currently, your copy of sendmail will be started by a script such as
/etc/init.d/mail or /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail. Somewhere in this script will
be the command to start sendmail itself. This should look like this:

    sendmail -bd -q15m

You should change this to the following two lines:





sendmail -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirecto
ry=/var/spool/mqueue.in
    sendmail -q15m"


Here is the "start" section of my sendmail start script

start() {
        # Start daemons.

        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
        if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then
          make all -C /etc/mail -s
        else
          for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
            if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
                makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
            fi
          done
        fi
        daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "x$DAEMON" = xyes ] && echo -bd) \
                                $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail

        if ! test -f /var/run/sm-client.pid ; then
        echo -n $"Starting sm-client: "
        touch /var/run/sm-client.pid
        chown smmsp:smmsp /var/run/sm-client.pid
        daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac \
                                -q$SMQUEUE
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sm-client
        fi

        return $RETVAL
}


I am not a programmer.  Can someone help me modify my start script or point
me to a more Redhat friendly install guide?

Thanks,

Al Cooper

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