Exim and MS 4.11-1

[Desai, Jason]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:27 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Exim and MS 4.11-1
>
>
> At 22:15 07/01/2003, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:07 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Exim and MS 4.11-1
> > >
> > >
> > > At 21:56 07/01/2003, you wrote:
> > > >I am trying to upgrade MS from version 3 to 4.11-1.  I have
> > > shut down the
> > > >old version and renamed its directory, and I am treating
> > > this as a new
> > > >install.  But when I run the new version, the spawned
> > > processes seem to scan
> > > >the mail for spam, then for viruses, and then partially move
> > > one message
> > > >from the in queue to the out queue before crashing.  Then
> > > another process
> > > >does the same thing.
> > >
> > > You probably still have the cron job which regularly restarts
> > > version 3.
> > > Check /etc/cron*/*.
> > >
> >
> >I was running check_mailscanner from root's crontab, and
> taking that out was
> >the first thing I did.  I also checked for any processes
> hanging around:
> >
> ># ps auxw  |grep -i mailscanner
> >root     18499  0.0  0.6  1332  436 pts/5    S    17:13
> 0:00 grep -i
> >mailscanner
>
> Also check the permissions and ownership on the "incoming"
> and "quarantine"
> directories.

They look ok to me:

# ls -ald /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
drwxrwxr-x    9 root     mail         3072 Jan  7 16:48
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
# ls -ald /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/
drwxrwxr-x  349 root     mail         6144 Jan  7 00:14
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/
# ls -ald /var/spool/exim/input/
drwxrwx---    2 mail     mail         3072 Jan  7 17:06
/var/spool/exim/input/
# ls -ald /var/spool/exim_incoming/input/
drwxrwx---    2 mail     mail         3072 Jan  7 18:00
/var/spool/exim_incoming/input/

The user mail is in the group mail, so he should have full access to these
directories.  These are the same directories that I used for version 3.  I'm
open to any other suggestions.  Thanks!

Jason Desai