Mailscanner setup (sendmail start script)

[Julian Field]

And there is a SuSE distribution which you should be using, rather than
doing it the hard way.

At 10:08 30/12/2003, you wrote:
>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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