MailScanner errors.
Erik Jakobsen
eja at URBAKKEN.DK
Sat Jan 17 06:23:05 GMT 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:57:10 +0000, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>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.
>
Oh no. I have overseen that in the postfix instruction.
But there seems to be a problem now with sending mails according to this
sample of /var/log/maillog, which I have tried to send once before:
Jan 16 19:13:01 gateway spamd[5340]: clean message (0.0/5.0) for filter:100
in 0.9 seconds, 938 bytes.
Jan 16 19:13:01 gateway postfix/postdrop[5349]: error: untrusted
configuration directory name: /etc/postfix.in
Jan 16 19:13:01 gateway postfix/postdrop[5349]: fatal: specify
"alternate_config_directories = /etc/postfix.in" in /etc/postfix/main.cf
Jan 16 19:13:02 gateway postfix/sendmail[5348]: warning: premature
end-of-input from /usr/sbin/postdrop -r while reading input attribute name
Jan 16 19:13:02 gateway postfix/sendmail[5348]: fatal: eja at urbakken.dk(100):
unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Success
Jan 16 19:13:03 gateway postfix/pipe[5337]: 1D93EC045: to=<oh2bns at sral.fi>,
relay=ccfilter, delay=3, status=bounced (service unavailable. Command
output: postdrop: error: untrusted configuration directory name:
/etc/postfix.in postdrop: fatal: specify "alternate_config_directories =
/etc/postfix.in" in /etc/postfix/main.cf sendmail: warning: premature
end-of-input from /usr/sbin/postdrop -r while reading input attribute name
sendmail: fatal: eja at urbakken.dk(100): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop
-r: Success )
>>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.
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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