MailScanner 4.12-2 / 4.13-3 incoming failed

[Bruce Rahn]

Allow me to add a more detailed observation in addition to my first posting
of "seeing the same problem here".

First off, this discrepancy started after the last kernel/glibc updates.
Everything was fine before that.  I too was bitten by the sendmail 'auto
start' issue when I upgraded, but that one was quick and easy to track down.

Now two more tid-bits.  While it indicates failed, it indeed is running
after a MailScanner start up and stops after a MailScanner stop.  So why the
error that it failed?  It indeed works.

Also, after the kernel/glibc update, the MailScanner-MRTG graph of Copies Of
Sendmail went from showing two down to showing zero.  If I were smarter, I'm
sure this is a clue.

It's not a show stopper, just leaves one with a false impression that things
are not working when indeed they are.

Regards -- Bruce

Bruce Rahn

brahn at woh.rr.com

Wisdom has two parts:
1.  having a lot to say; and
2.  not saying it!


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:10 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner 4.12-2 / 4.13-3 incoming failed


At 18:56 26/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>  I'm having this problem that when I run 'service MailScanner status' the
> output displays the following error:
>
>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail: [FAILED]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>
>  I've verified mail is working both in and out bound correctly, so I
> don't know why the error.
>
>  I have RedHatV8.0, and I just upgrade today to MailScanner 4.13-3.  I
> also had the problem with MailScanner V4.12-2.  I never notice the
> problem before until I upgraded the kernel and glib rpms last week for
> security reasons.
>
>  Has anyone else seen this problem yet?

The sendmail replacement RPM issued by RedHat Network does a
         service sendmail restart
which re-runs sendmail :-(
I stopped it doing it in future by adding intentional syntax errors to
         /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
(I added a load of text on the end explaining what I had done, which of
course generates load of sh syntax errors)

--
Julian Field
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