MailScanner 4.21-6 Repeated Start

[Julian Field]

What MTA are you using? What are the "Run As User" and "Run As Group"
settings in your MailScanner.conf?

I really wouldn't advise making your mqueue world-writable!

At 01:41 19/05/2003, you wrote:
>Marco, etc.,
>
>Just to add fuel to the fire....
>
>I am getting the same thing with 4.20-3.  When I look at the syslog
>file, I get:
>
>        /var/spool/mqueue is not owned by user 1
>
>User 1 is 'bin' in my /etc/passwd file.  I have the /var/spool/mqueue
>chmod'ed to 777, chgrp'ed to bin (bin and root are in this group), and
>everything else I know of to make user 'bin' able to write to this
>directory.
>
>Phil
>
>
>On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Marco Obaid wrote:
>
>>Hi Julian and all,
>>
>>Is this normal in 4.21-6?
>>
>>May 18 16:43:00 its MailScanner[8269]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:43:10 its MailScanner[8273]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:43:20 its MailScanner[8274]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:43:30 its MailScanner[8275]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:43:40 its MailScanner[8276]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:43:50 its MailScanner[8277]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:00 its MailScanner[8278]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:10 its MailScanner[8279]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:20 its MailScanner[8280]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:30 its MailScanner[8282]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:40 its MailScanner[8283]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:44:50 its MailScanner[8284]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:45:00 its MailScanner[8285]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:45:10 its MailScanner[8286]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:45:20 its MailScanner[8287]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
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>>May 18 16:45:30 its MailScanner[8288]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
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>>May 18 16:45:40 its MailScanner[8289]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
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>>May 18 16:45:50 its MailScanner[8290]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:46:00 its MailScanner[8291]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:46:10 its MailScanner[8292]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:46:20 its MailScanner[8293]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:46:30 its MailScanner[8294]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>May 18 16:46:40 its MailScanner[8295]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version
>>4.21-6 starting...
>>
>>Mail traffic is fine as far as I can tell ... This is on RH9, Postfix,
>>MS 4.21-6
>>combination.
>>
>>Thank you
>>Marco
>>
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