Error on restart

[Desai, Jason]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Mariano Absatz wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:52:37 -0700, Ken Goods
>> <kgoods at aiainsurance.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I need a little help!
>>>
>>> I upgraded to the latest version of MailScanner this morning hoping
>>> to catch the zip-in-zip viruses and when I did a MailScanner
>>> restart I got the following error...
>>>
>>> Cannot open config file restart, No such file or directory at
>>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 575.
>>>
>>> I never have seen this error before so I'm thinking something went
>>> wrong during the install but I didn't receive any errors from the
>>> install.sh script.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be appreciated much!
>>
>>
>> gee... I don't know, I always install MailScanner 'by hand' but that
>> path doesn't look good to me... does the RPM install put the .pm's in
>> /usr/lib/MailScanner and /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner?
>>
>> Maybe you didn't install the thing right...
>
> Config.pm is in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner, with other .pm
>   files. But what states the error?  It is looking for a called
> "restart"? or another?
>
>   At line 575 of Config.pm, I've got:
>
> $fh->open("<$filename") or die "Cannot open config file $filename,
> $!";
>
> I can't help more though...

Sounds like you're running the MailScanner program that came in the bin
directory instead of running a script that goes in /etc/init.d.  Not sure
what went wrong.  I install from the tar distribution and start MailScanner
with the check_mailscanner script.

Jase

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