MailScanner Postfix and SuSE 8.1

[Julian Field]

At 15:11 01/07/2003, you wrote:
>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.

In which case delete the line that prints the "failed" :-)

>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!

Yes, it was only a quick and dirty hack. When I get some time alone with my
SuSE box (has dead CPU fan right now) I will do some more work on it. Need
to try with SuSE 8.2 as well (which someone here kindly bought me).


>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-----
> >From: L-Soft list server at JISCMAIL (1.8e)
> >[mailto:LISTSERV at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
> >
> >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
> >spam protector. It is also used for announcements of new releases.
> >
> >If you *only* want announcements of new releases, then you would do
> >better to subscribe to the MailScanner project at
> >http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/mailscanner.
> >
> >--
> >Jules
> >www.mailscanner.info
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support