Mail Down MS problem a little help please

[Mike Kercher]

Are your incoming and queue dirs on the same partition?  (not symlink'd).
What are the permissions on /var/run

Mine are:

drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Apr 10 12:06 run

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:32 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: FW: Mail Down MS problem a little help please
> 
> Joe is having problems posting to the list. He asked me to post this.
> 
> Steve
> Stephen Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
>  
> ________________________________________
> From: JOSEPH DOE [mailto:maildown88 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:45 PM
> To: steve.swaney at FSL.COM
> Cc: mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK
> Subject: Mail Down MS problem a little help please
> 
> Hi this is joe at Eagle Net Support  mailed the comment 
> yesterday bad friday good friday...
>  
> I've got a mail down due to no MailScanner.pid error   Could 
> I get some help forwarding this error/request for help to the 
> MailScanner List.  Can't remember passwd to use web 
> interface, can't start up a temp account cause I can't 
> confirm the e-mail they send to new accounts, tried creating 
> this yahoo to get through but they must be blocking yahoo or 
> something cause over an hour and no confirmation e-mail to 
> allow me into MailScanner list.  
>  
> Could you paste this in mail to the list PLEEEEASE.  I can at 
> least see the answers in the WEB interface.  I setup this 
> yahoo to deal with this but it's not getting on the list 
> maildown88 at yahoo.com
>  
> thanks joe
> eaglenetworks
> ************************paste in text to send
> NOTE: Joe at eagle net support here this mail is a relay 
> cause my mail is dead.  I'll be looking at the WEB interface 
> to the list for any answers.........
>  
> Very few mails are going through, maybe 5% Getting this when 
> I shut down MS
>  
> rm: cannot remove `/var/run/MailScanner.pid': Input/output 
> error  ] Though it does shut down here with no displayed 
> error on startup
>  
> Getting this in maillog
> Apr 10 12:23:25 saturn sendmail[14785]: i3AINNB14785: 
> to=<Conradpe at aol.com>,
> 
> delay=00:00:01,
>  mailer=esmtp, pri=33206, stat=queued
> Apr 10 12:23:25 saturn sendmail[14785]: i3AINNB14785: 
> SYSERR(root): cannot rename(./tfi3AINN B14785, 
> ./qfi3AINNB14785), uid=0: No such file or directory Apr 10 
> 12:23:25 saturn sendmail[14785]: i3AINNB14785: queueup: cannot create
> 
> ./tfi3AINNB1478
> 5, uid=0: File exists
> Apr 10 12:23:25 saturn MailScanner[14786]: MailScanner E-Mail 
> Virus Scanner version
> 4.24-5 s
> tarting...
> Apr 10 12:23:25 saturn MailScanner[14786]: Could not read 
> file /var/run/MailScanner.pid Apr 10 12:23:25 saturn 
> MailScanner[14786]: Error in line 114, file 
> "/var/run/MailScanner.pid " for pidfile does not exist (or 
> can not be read)
>  
> This appears for almost every piece with an occasional delivery ???
> Confirmed no MailScanner.pid in /var/run and a locate shows 
> no file by that name except in the original src set before install.
>  
> Also 200+ sendmail processes build up in minutes, (during 
> normal delivery
> 5-8 average) till I kill it.  Maybe 10% of these show 
> "[MailScanner <defunct>]"
>  
> Red Hat 7.1
> 1.2 G proc
> 640 MEG Mem
> Sendmail
> MS 4.25.14
> 
> Any ideas and any more info needed?  No mail now so 
> monitoring WEB interface to list for suggestions.  I setup 
> this yahoo to deal with this but it's not getting on the list 
> maildown88 at yahoo.com
>  
> thanks
> joe
> 
>  
>  
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