MS+SA+CLAMAV on FreeBSD

[Drew Marshall]

Matthew K Bowman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using 4 Redhat Boxes for MS, SA and F-prot. However we
> have found RH9 to be an unreliable OS, as a result we are looking at
> FreeBSD as an alternative OS.  I downloaded the source for  MS, Clamav
> and SA onto the FreeBSD and followed the instructions.

Well the first thing I would have done is installed from the Ports tree.
It's much more reliable and puts things in the right place. Details of
how to do this can be found in the excellent handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook I would suggest 'cvsup' ing the ports
tree first so you have some recent files (Like the zip 1.12 perl module)
and install a more recent version of Perl from the ports tree before
installing MS (Although the default version should be 5.6.x should be OK)

>
> FreeBSD 5.2.1
> MS installed fine with --ignore-perl (4.31-6)
> ClamAv installed fine  (0.74)
> SA installed fine (2.63)
>
> When MS starts up, it doesn't report its found messages in the queue, it
> appears that MS just hangs and sendmails just carries on and passes the
> mail through. It doesn't seem MS is actually do either spam or virus
> checks (maillog does not indicate so)
>
> Output of spamassassin -D --lint

Lets get MS working first before getting excited about SA ;-)  Do you
have the output from /var/log/maillog? This will yield more clues.

HTH

Drew

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