MailScanner not working after computer lockup

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Rob Freeman
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:53 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner not working after computer lockup
>
> I have the latest stable version of mailscanner install, but my server
> locked up and now I can not get it to work.  For some reason, it is
> denying
> access to all my users, I get a message of :
>
> Relaying denied for rcpt user at domain.com for every message now.
>
> I checked the /etc/mail/access and have relay access for that domain.  The
> /etc/host file looks good.
>
> I did notice another message in the /var/log/maillog about not being able
> to
> bind to opendaemonsocket, and I looked throught the archives about
> sendmail

Are you starting sendmail AND MailScanner when you boot. Yous should only be
starting MailScanner as it properly starts sendmail.

Check your init scripts.

Steve
Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> running, the chkconfig for that is off and has been for a while, but it
> almost seems like sendmail is taking over.  If I restart MailScanner, then
> I
> get the message of:
>
> SYSERR:  No such file /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
>
> I have tried running the ps auxww to kill everything sendmail and
> restarting
> MailScanner with no luck again.
>
> I will keep on looking at the archives for more info, but I am at a loss
> on
> why this is happening right now.
>
> Rob
>
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