ANNOUNCE: Stable version 4.31 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jun 1 16:36:45 IST 2004


I have just released 4.31.5 which does not have the FLOCK detector in it. I
just tried it on a few systems round here and it often gets the answer
wrong. Having the code in there will cause far more trouble than not having
it, so it has gone.

At 16:03 01/06/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just installed this version on our HP9000 system and we see the following in
>the mail logfile :
>
>Jun  1 16:22:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.31.4 starting...
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: Using locktype = posix
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: 1
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: 2
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: 3
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: 4
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: 5
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: Don't know how to do
>fcntl locking on 'hpux'
>Jun  1 16:22:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[25617]: Please contact
>mailscanner authors.5
>
>According to the config file it should default to flock when using sendmail
>but for some kind of reason it's using posix resulting in the errors above.
>After changing the Lock Type entry to flock in the config file the
>mailscanner is working again.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Marcel Burggraeve
>Plusine B.V.
>The Netherlands>
>
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