queries about mail scanner

[Simon Something]

Hi Ugo

thanks for everything

i had a problem in scanner.conf file . its workin fine now

thnks a lot n appreciate ur help


simon



>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : Simon Something [mailto:linux at KMUN.GOV.KW]
>>Envoyé : 16 mars, 2004 01:12
>>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Objet : queries about mail scanner
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have recently installed mail scanner 4.28.6 and would
>>appreciate if i do
>>know the following
>>
>>I am using Linux red hat 8 and Sendmail 8-12 .
>>
>>When I  wanna see the status using the command
>>
>>service MailScanner status it says
>>
>>checking Mail Scanner daemons
>>
>>Mailscanner -- OK
>>
>>incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.id no such file
>>or directory
>> OK
>>outgoing sendmail : OK
>
> These pid files are defined at the beginning of /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
> (INPID and OUTPID).  Take a look there.
>
>
>>
>>and there is no file sendmail.in.pid in the /var/run
>>but the are 2 files
>>
>>sendmail.pid &
>>sendmail.out.pid
>>
>>but when I restart the service with service MailScanner restart
>>it says
>>
>>Starting MailScanner daemons
>>
>>incoming sendail : Ok
>>outgoing sendmail : OK
>>MailScanner : OK
>
> Ok, have you modified the /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner file or the
> /etc/init.d/MailScanner file?
>
>>
>>2) how do I know my mailScanner is really checking for incomming mail
>
> ps -aux | grep MailScanner
>
> If you have any <defunct> process, you've got a problem.
>
>>viruses and which log files do i have to check so i can know about this
>>
>>i have been checking the /var/log/maillog file but there are
>>no instances
>>of MailScanner
>
> When you do a service MailScanner restart, you should get something like:
>
> Mar 16 01:47:48 server MailScanner[8873]: MailScanner child caught a
> SIGHUP
> Mar 16 01:47:58 server sendmail[11029]: alias database /etc/aliases
> rebuilt by root
> Mar 16 01:47:58 server sendmail[11029]: /etc/aliases: 64 aliases, longest
> 10 bytes, 634 bytes total
> Mar 16 01:47:58 server sendmail[11039]: starting daemon (8.12.10): SMTP
> Mar 16 01:47:58 server sm-msp-queue[11044]: starting daemon (8.12.10):
> queueing at 00:15:00
> Mar 16 01:47:58 server sendmail[11050]: starting daemon (8.12.10):
> queueing at 00:15:00
> Mar 16 01:48:04 server MailScanner[11072]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.28.6 starting...
> Mar 16 01:48:11 server MailScanner[11072]: Using locktype = flock
>
>>
>>thanks and Apreciate
>>
>>regards
>>
>>simon
>>
> Hope this helps
>
> Ugo
>