mailscanner + procmail + gentoo

[Julian Field]

Doesn't matter.
I would personally start them up in the numeric order I gave, but it
doesn't really make any difference.

At 18:46 11/06/2003, you wrote:
>And in that specific order?
>
>valmiki
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > You need to start 3 processes:
> >
> > 1. A sendmail with "-bd" to supply the SMTP service.
> > 2. A sendmail with "-q15m" (or some other time after the "-q" to deliver
> > the outgoing messages.
> > 3. A MailScanner to join the two together.
> >
> > "check_MailScanner" only starts up number 3. You need to start up numbers 1
> > and 2 as well. Sample command lines for these are in the installation
> > documentation for the tar distribution.
> >
> > At 17:56 11/06/2003, you wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:34:36PM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> > I'm using gentoo. I got mcafee and sendmail working.. I also installed
> > >> > mailscanner, and made the changes to the /etc/conf.d/sendmail file
> > >> > (/etc/init.d/sendmail reads the options from there) It all starts up
> > >fine,
> > >> > but nothing gets scanned by mailscanner, and I'm not sure why.. I
> > >don't see
> > >> > it in the headers.....
> > >>
> > >> You should STOP sendmail. The mailscanner script should run sendmail.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Well yea I figured that out. But this is the problem. In gentoo you have a
> > >dir /etc/init.d with all the startup scripts, just like in redhat...
> > >then you use a script rc-update to add and remove programs you want to
> > >start on the different boot levels.
> > >I have been doing the check_mailscanner thing and then an nmap and no port
> > >25 is open...... So i'm guessing something is wrong big time?
> > >
> > >Any help appreciated, I'll make a temp acct if someone wants to look
> > >around my system...
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Valmiki
> >
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> > Julian Field
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