MailScanner 8.26-1 won't start

[Ugo Bellavance]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> Don't know what I did, but I'm building a new server on SuSE 8.0 and
> installed 8.26-1.  It was working, but I turned it off to add a couple other
> things like Spamassassin, Razor2, and mailscanner-mrtg.  Now when I try to
> start it I get this:
>
> city-dns2-su8:/var/log # ps aux | grep MailScanner
> root     14157  0.0  4.2 12752 10948 ?       S    15:16   0:00 /usr/bin/perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root     14158  1.3  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    15:16   0:01 [MailScanner
> <defunct>]
> root     14160  1.4  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    15:16   0:01 [MailScanner
> <defunct>]
> root     14177 28.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    15:18   0:01 [MailScanner
> <defunct>]
> root     14179  0.0  0.2  1636  592 pts/0    R    15:18   0:00 grep
> MailScanner
>
>
> I have it set to three child processes.  Tail -f /var/log/mail just shows a
> new process being started every 10 seconds.  I'm stumped.  I've killed it,
> then checked /var/log/mail and the odd thing is that the virus scanner
> update checks are being run on the hour, even if MailScanner isn't running.
> Not sure what's calling them.  I thought MailScanner did.  Nothing else in
> mail - all I get is:
>
> Feb 11 16:17:24 city-dns2-su8 MailScanner[16428]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.26.8 starting...
> Feb 11 16:17:34 city-dns2-su8 MailScanner[16430]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.26.8 starting...
> Feb 11 16:17:44 city-dns2-su8 MailScanner[16433]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.26.8 starting...
>
>
> Any clues?  Anybody else seen this lately?

Yup, I remember seeing that when I was trying to configure MailWatch.  I
needed to upgrade a perl module.
>
>
> ...Kevin
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