mail not being scanned after reboot althought MailScanner was running

[Denis Beauchemin]

Depending on the run-level you use by default, starting MailScanner only
in level 2 may not be enough.

Try also:
chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on

Denis
PS: don't forget to turn sendmail off as noted by Kevin Spicer:
chkconfig sendmail off

Le mar 14/01/2003 à 11:22, Joe Quinn a écrit :
> Haven't a clue what this means :-)
> 
> [root at raq1 /root]# chkconfig --list | grep -i mail
> sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> MailScanner 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
> [root at raq1 /root]#
> 
> Can you advise please?
> 
> Joe Quinn, QITC Internet Solutions (joe at qitc.co.uk)
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: mail not being scanned after reboot althought MailScanner was
> running
> 
> 
> Check your init.d to ensure only MailScanner is being fired up, not the
> "sendmail" init.d script as well.
> chkconfig --list | grep -i mail
> should show that sendmail is off and MailScanner is on.
> 
> At 14:56 14/01/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running version 4.11-1 on a RaQ3
> >
> >Strange thing this morning, I noticed an email coming in from a source that
> >would normally have been tagged as spam but wasn't.
> >
> >I had a look at the header and sure enough, no indication that MailScanner
> >had checked it???
> >
> >I ran the top command and it showed MailScanner was running a few processes
> >then tailed the maillog which showed mail coming in but no scan???
> >
> >I traced the exact time the problem arose back to a reboot I did;
> >
> >reboot   system boot  2.2.16C32_III    Sun Jan 12 23:28         (1+11:23)
> >
> >prior to this all was OK but after this, no scanning.
> >
> >I stopped MailScanner then started it again after checking it was
> definitely
> >stopped;
> >
> >[root at raq1 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop
> >Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> >          MailScanner:       ERROR!
> >          incoming sendmail: sendmail ok
> >          outgoing sendmail: sendmail ok
> >[root at raq1 /root]# ps -auxww | grep -i mail
> >root       439  0.0  0.0  1192  456 pts/0    S    10:53   0:00 grep -i mail
> >[root at raq1 /root]# ps -auxww | grep -i mail
> >[root at raq1 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start
> >
> >All is now OK and mail is definitely being scanned but what caused the
> >problem, any ideas?
> >
> >Joe Quinn, QITC Internet Solutions (joe at qitc.co.uk)
> >www.qitc.net
> 
> --
> Julian Field
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