SNMP server down since installing mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 17:18 24/02/2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:28:03AM -0500, Stephen Swaney wrote:
> >
> > This is caused by an instance of sendmail running before you start
> > MailScanner. If you're on a Linux System (you don't say what OS you're
> > running)
> >
> > Stop MailScanner:
> >
> >         service MailScanner stop
> >
> > Stop sendmail:
> >
> >         service sendmail stop
> >
> > make sure that sendmail is NOT started on boot:
> >
> >         chkconfig --del sendmail
> >
> > Make sure that MailScanner starts on boot:
> >
> >         chkconfig --level 345 MailScanner on
> >
> > Start MailScanner:
> >
> >         service MailScanner start
>
>I see instructions like this posted here often and just wanted to point
>out that these are specific to MailScanner when installed via rpm on
>redhat/fedora (and possibly other rpm based distros.) These are not
>valid for MailScanner on all Linux installs, i.e. installs done from the
>tarballs or debian packages.

Correct, however I am sure you can work out how to translate them into the
relevant commands for your distribution. You are all system admins, after all.
--
Julian Field
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