mail not being scanned after reboot althought MailScanner was running

[Joe Quinn]

> Did you install it using the RPM distribution?

Yes

> If so, did you read what it said at the very end of the installation
process?

Yes, that doesn't work on a RaQ, see my mail to the list of 6th Dec 02 :-)

Is there something we can do so that it runs as it should after a reboot
without any intervention?

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 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: mail not being scanned after reboot althought MailScanner was
running


Did you install it using the RPM distribution?
If so, did you read what it said at the very end of the installation
process?

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

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