MS+SA+CLAMAV on FreeBSD

Matthew K Bowman mkbowman at NEO.RR.COM
Wed Jul 14 13:52:46 IST 2004


Gib Gilbertson Jr. wrote:

> At 01:29 PM 7/14/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Matt
>>
>> maybe - did you stop the existing sendmail first??????
>>
>> the rc.MailScanner should start two sendmail's, one for both queues and
>> MS itself.
>>  in the rc.conf you'll need a sendmail="no" line to stop FreeBSD
>> starting it on boot.
>
>
> Hi Matt.
>
> On my FreeBSD system I have the directory /usr/local/etc/rc.d and in this
> directory are 2 scripts for starting/stopping/restarting mailscanner and
> your mta. These scripts are called mailscanner.sh and mta.sh
>
> You need to kill all sendmail instances, and then if you have the same
> scripts as I do issue the commands
>
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mta.sh start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner.sh restart
>
> That should hopefully get you going if everything else is installed
> correctly, and as Martin mentioned, change sendmail="yes" to
> sendmail="no"
> in your /etc/rc.conf file.
>
> gib
>
>
>> --
>> Martin Hepworth
>> Snr Systems Administrator
>> Solid State Logic
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
>>
>> Matthew K Bowman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Arg!!! I wonder if this is my problem:
>>>
>>> # MailScanner starts here
>>> mta_start_script="/opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner"
>>> MailScanner_incoming_queue="/var/spool/mqueue.in"
>>> MailScanner_queue_time="15m"
>>> MailScanner_check="/opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner"
>>> MailScanner_pidfile="/opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid"
>>> # MailScanner ends here
>>>
>>> Ok i've modified the start_script to have start.
>>>
>>> When i run rc.MailScanner normally its actually starting sendmail first
>>> then mailscanner -- is that the problem?
>>>
>>> Jul 14 08:21:02 udcommx4 sm-mta[25063]: starting daemon (8.12.10): SMTP
>>> Jul 14 08:21:02 udcommx4 sendmail[25065]: starting daemon (8.12.10):
>>> queueing at 00
>>> :15:00
>>> Jul 14 08:21:05 udcommx4 MailScanner[25085]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>> Scanner ve
>>> rsion 4.31.6 starting...
>>> Jul 14 08:21:05 udcommx4 sm-msp-queue[25087]: starting daemon
>>> (8.12.10):
>>> queuein
>>> g at 00:30:00
>>>
>>> Matthew
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Odd. I only have mailscanner.sh

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