Starting from scratch

Billy Pumphrey billy at PLANETGEEK.BIZ
Thu Apr 7 19:35:29 IST 2005


I'll thoroughly look at the .conf file in the next few days to see.  Other
than changing the flock, really that is all that I changed and the rest are
defaults.  Thank you :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Silva [mailto:ssilva at SGVWATER.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:38 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>
> Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> >>First thing to try is setting locking to posix, because Sendmail 13 has
> >>issues with flock.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, I did this.  Now the log says to the effect of:
> > Apr  7 10:25:21 WoodenMS MailScanner[2574]: Using locktype = posix
> > Apr  7 10:25:21 WoodenMS MailScanner[2574]: Creating hardcoded
> struct_flock
> > subr
> > outine for linux (Linux-type)
> >
> >
> > I did not know that the log does not show as it did before in previous
> > versions.  Before I would do tail -f /var/log/maillog and see the emails
> > coming through.  How does it work now?
> >
> > Looking that the log was what I was doing to see if it would work or
> not.
> > Since nothing came through the log I did not think that it was working.
> >
> > MailScanner is Working!!
> >
> > However I would like to know how to "view the log".
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> Have you looked in the /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf section on
> logging.
> Maybe you have something off in there.
>
>
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