MailScanner errors.

[Julian Field]

At 16:57 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>Then it must be the sendmail.in.pid and the sendmail.out.pid that lacks,
>but I'm not using sendmail ?.

Have you set the correct MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner? That controls
which MTA the MailScanner init.d script will start up.


>Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>>It has been made the /var/run directory:
>>
>># ls -al /var/run
>>total 132
>>drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root         4096 Jan 16 16:33 .
>>drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         4096 Jan 16 13:46 ..
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 10  2003 console
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:32 crond.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 16 16:32 dansguardian.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 dhcpd.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:32 dnsmasq.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:32 httpd.pid
>>-rw-------    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 klogd.pid
>>-rw-------    1 postfix  postfix         5 Jan 16 16:32 MailScanner.pid
>>drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 13  2003 netreport
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 ppp0.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 Jan 16 16:31 pppd.tdb
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 pppoe-adsl.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 pppoe-adsl.pid.pppd
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31
>>pppoe-adsl.pid.pppoe
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31
>>pppoe-adsl.pid.start
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           10 Jan 16 16:31 ppp-ppp0.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:32 privoxy.pid
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 16 16:32 proftpd
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody          5 Jan 16 16:32 proftpd.pid
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 16 16:32 samba
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 26  2003 saslauthd
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 16 16:32 sm-client.pid
>>-rw-------    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:32 snort_eth0.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 sshd.pid
>>drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2003 sudo
>>-rw-------    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 syslogd.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:33 syswatch.pid
>>-rw-rw-r--    1 root     utmp         4224 Jan 16 17:23 utmp
>>-rw-------    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:33 vpnwatchd.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:33 webconfig.pid
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 Jan 16 16:31 xinetd.pid
>>
>>
>>Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>>mkdir /var/run
>>>then try it again.
>>>
>>>At 15:33 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>
>>>>I have just reinstalled MailScanner on a new server here. I use postfix,
>>>>but I'm receiving the following when MailScanner shall start:
>>>>
>>>>[root at gateway /]# service MailScanner status
>>>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>          incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such
>>>>file or directory
>>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>>>          outgoing sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.out.pid: No such
>>>>file or directory
>>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Med venlig hilsen - Best regards.
>>>>Erik Jakobsen - eja at urbakken.dk.
>>>>Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK.
>>>>SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff.
>>>>Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter,
>>>>http://counter.li.org.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Julian Field
>>>www.MailScanner.info
>>>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>>>
>>>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>>
>>--
>>Med venlig hilsen - Best regards.
>>Erik Jakobsen - eja at urbakken.dk.
>>Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK.
>>SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff.
>>Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.
>
>--
>Med venlig hilsen - Best regards.
>Erik Jakobsen - eja at urbakken.dk.
>Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK.
>SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff.
>Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654