MailScanner errors.
Erik Jakobsen
eja at URBAKKEN.DK
Sat Jan 17 08:19:51 GMT 2004
The reply made in the archives list arrived here now -its this one, that
I reply to-, Now I will see if this one also arrives from the list to me
again -as it should-.
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:43:06 +0100, Erik Jakobsen <eja at URBAKKEN.DK> wrote:
>
> I see this mail in the archive now. It should also have been sent to me. I
> think it has, but due to a reason I don't know it has not been visbile in my
> mailing program.
>
> I wonder really what is going on here, or not going on.
>
>
>
>>I added the line to my /etc/postfix/main.cf, and it seems to work now.
>>
>>"alternate_config_directories = /etc/postfix.in"
>>
>>Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>--
>>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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