Pb running mailscanner on debian box

thierry lenaig at WANADOO.FR
Wed May 26 20:50:50 IST 2004


On 26/05/04 Ã Â 10:46, Desai, Jason wrote:
> Sounds like you still have another sendmail (or another mta) process
> running.  From your own logs you've posted to the list, sometimes you had an
> entry from "sendmail[2802]" and other times you had "sm-mta[5475]".  I don't
> know sendmail at all, but I would think you want your DAEMON_PARMS to start
> with "-bd" and not "bd" (notice the - at the beginning).
i have already put "-bd" instead off "bd" but i have the same problem:

root     11988  0.0  3.0 18364 15956 ?       SNs  20:00   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/share/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     11989  0.0  5.8 32536 30008 ?       SN   20:00   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/share/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     12414  0.0  0.4  7120 2556 ?        Ss   20:03   0:00 sendmail:
MTA: accepting connections
root     12431  0.0  0.4  6412 2356 ?        Ss   20:03   0:00 sendmail:
MTA: Queue runner at 00:10:00 for /var/spool/mqueue

I do not know what to do more ...
> 
> I would guess if you make that change and restart that sendmail would
> complain about not being able to open a socket, because another process may
> have it open.  If this is the  case, you'll need to find out what that
> program is and stop it.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jase
> 
> thierry wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Perhaps i found where is the problem, i did not resolv it yet ...
> > When i check my mail, i can see that no one email come to
> > /var/spool/mqueue.in ... it is always empty ...
> > So, what does that mean ? Sendmail does not look on his configration
> > file ? I put in /etc/mail/sendmail.conf :
> >
> > DAEMON_PARMS="bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> > -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";
> >
> > Or is there any problem between Debian and sendmail ??
> >
> > Thx for your help.
> 
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