MailScanner Postfix and SuSE 8.1

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

Thanks - this works (after I made a few changes - shown below) but it
reports:

Initializing sendmail and MailScanner
failed

Even tho all the services appear to have been started fine.

I did have to change the startproc lines to include the full path to postfix
and use start

Eg.

Startproc -f -p $srvoutpid /usr/sbin/postfix -c /etc/postfix start

I am trying to go through and create a proper init.d script now. I don't
really know much about this but will post it when I get it working fully!

Thanks,

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 01 July 2003 14:23
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner Postfix and SuSE 8.1


I need to do some more work on the SuSE init.d script so it is as clever as
my RedHat one.

In the mean time, look in the init.d script for code that starts with a line
saying "startin)" and replace the following 3 sections with this:

     startin)
         echo -n "Initializing incoming Postfix"
         startproc    -p $srvpid postfix -c /etc/postfix.in
         rc_status
         ;;
     startout)
         echo -n "Initializing outgoing Postfix"
         startproc -f -p $srvoutpid postfix -c /etc/postfix
         rc_status
         ;;
     start)
         echo -n "Initializing Postfix and MailScanner"
         startproc    -p $srvpid postfix -c /etc/postfix.in
         rc_status
         startproc -f -p $srvoutpid postfix -c /etc/postfix
         rc_status
         startproc -f -p $mspid /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner >/dev/null
         rc_status -v
         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off >/dev/null 2>&1
         ;;

At 13:17 01/07/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can someone help me please?!
>
>I have just installed a clean copy of SuSE 8.1, Postfix (1.1.11-110),
>Sophos, and MailScanner. I used the latest stable release from the
>Mailscanner website (Version 4.21-9 for SuSE Linux 8.0/8.1).
>
>I ran the installation script and followed through every step in the
>Using MailScanner with Postfix installation guide with no real problems
>except one
>- the guide refers to a utility called redhat-switchmail-nox which I do not
>have. Anyway When I try to run /etc/init.d/MailScanner start I get the
>following errors:
>Initializing sendmail and MailScannersendmail: invalid option -- O
>sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
>sendmail: invalid option -- A
>sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
>sendmail: invalid option -- A
>sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
>
failed
>I have had a look through the init.d script and it looks nothing like the
>updated one on the Mailscanner website. Also /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner has
>no MTA= line in it and I have not added one. It only has a number of
>SENDMAIL_*_ARGS options and the workdir directives. Is this right? Or do I
>need to add the MTA Line anyway? It doesn't seem to be used by the
>init.d/MailScanner script that was installed with the SuSE package.
>
>Has anyone got any ideas on how I can get this working? I guess I just
>need to tweak the sendmail options but do not know which ones should be
>used.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Sam
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>
>Sent: 01 July 2003 13:00
>To: Sam Luxford-Watts
>Subject: Welcome to MailScanner
>
>
>This list is for the discussion of the MailScanner e-mail virus and
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>
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>
>--
>Jules
>www.mailscanner.info

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Julian Field
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