lock and mkdir problem with 4.11

[Christophe Long]

it was more stupid than that, I make the migration from mailscanner 3 to 4 and
I have stopped mailscanner 3 for that but have forgotten the script 
check_mailscanner ...

Now it works !

Sorry ...

Christophe

Le Jeudi 2 Janvier 2003 12:53, vous avez écrit :
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christophe Long [mailto:clong at ALPHASYS.FR]
> > Sent: 02 January 2003 11:36
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: lock and mkdir problem with 4.11
> >
> >
> > I have installed the 4.11-1 from the tar ball archive, my
> > system is a debian I have on it a perl 5.6.1 and sendmail 8.12.3 (-4)
> >
> > When I let MailScanner try to figure out which lock to use,
> > it choses flock and I have ...
> >
> > Jan  2 03:00:40 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: MailScanner
> > Jan  2 03:00:40 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: MailScanner
> > E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.11-1 starting... Jan  2
> > 03:00:42 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Using locktype = flock
> > Jan  2 03:00:58 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Could not open file
> >
> > >/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/21572/h02B0Sv0021564.header: No such
> > >file or
> >
> > directory
> > Jan  2 03:00:58 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Cannot create +
> > lock headers file
> > /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/21572/h02B0Sv0021564.header,
>
> Do you have a /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory?  Or indeed a
> /var/spool/MailScanner - beware the case sensitivity?
>
> Is it writeable by whichever user MailScanner is running as? (Not
> applicable if running as root)
>
> Is their execute permission for the MailScanner running user or group
> (not applicable if running as root) on every directory to that point,
> i.e. on /, /var, /var/spool, /var/spool/MailScanner,
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming ?
>
> Steve

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