Installation on SuSe 7.1

[Julian Field]

The SuSE RPM only works with 8.x, not 7.1.
Take a look at /etc/init.d/MailScanner and remove sendmail command-line
options that it doesn't like.
I'm afraid I haven't got a 7.x machine to develop it on.

At 19:24 14/01/2003, you wrote:
>Hi, I just tried to install MailScanner on my SuSE 7.1 installation. Semms
>to work fine as Mailscanner starts correct, but when it tries to start the
>sendmail deamon I get Error Messages:
>
>mail2:~ # rcMailScanner start
>Initializing sendmail and MailScanner/usr/sbin/sendmail: illegal option -- A
>startproc:  exit status of /usr/sbin/sendmail: 64
>/usr/sbin/sendmail: illegal option -- A
>startproc:  exit status of /usr/sbin/sendmail: 64
>                                                                       done
>mail2:~ #
>
>But I have got 5 Instances of Mailscanner running after trying to start it:
>
>
>19914 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19915 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19916 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19917 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19918 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19919 ?        S      0:00 perl -
>I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /et
>19920 pts/0    R      0:00 ps ax
>mail2:~ # check_MailScanner
>MailScanner running with pid 19914 19915 19916 19917 19918 19919
>mail2:~ #
>
>Only the Sendmal deamon semms not to start...
>
>whats wrong with my Installation? Any Suggestions?
>
>I have the SuSE 8.0 RPM installed, any Problems with that on SuSE 7.1? Is
>There a RPM for SuSE 7.1? I also tried the source RPM, without success...
>
>Greets Johannes

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