My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation

[Roger Jochem]

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I guess for Sendmail 8.13 the lock tipe should not be "flock", I'm I
correct? I think it should be "posix"...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Swaney" <steve.swaney at FSL.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Timothy Barhorst
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:40 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation
> >
> > I've installed the latest Mailscanner (4.20-3 ), Sendmail (8.13.3)  and
> > SpamAssassin (3.0.2)  on a new Fedora system ( kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp)
> >
> > I'm also using clamav-0.83.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've noticed two problems.
> >
> >
> >
> > First one is that when I use Spam Checks = yes,  then no mail gets
> > delivered - it just repeats the following over and over in the log.
> >
> > If I set Spam Checks = no, then mail gets delivered - including spam.
> >
> >
> >
> > Feb 24 11:16:38 bilbo MailScanner[7679]: Using locktype = flock
> >
> > Feb 24 11:16:38 bilbo MailScanner[7679]: New Batch: Scanning 9 messages,
> > 87563 bytes
> >
> > Feb 24 11:16:47 bilbo MailScanner[7681]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner
> > version 4.20-3 starting...
> >
> > Feb 24 11:16:48 bilbo MailScanner[7681]: Using locktype = flock
> >
> >
> >
> > The other problem is that my clamav doesn;'t seem to update properly. I
> > get the following in the logs.
> >
> >
> >
> > Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
> >
> > Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo update.virus.scanners: Updating clamav
> >
> > Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo ClamAV-autoupdate[3684]: ClamAV updater failed
> >
> >
> >
> > I've installed several MailScanner installations before but these have
me
> > stumped. All suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim B.
> >
>
> Look for two files, clamd.conf and freshclam.conf. On a linux system the
are
> located in /usr/local/etc.
>
> Edit these files to add a # (comment out) in front of the word Example.
Then
> test by running freshclam.
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> Phone: 202 338-1670
> Cell: 202 352-3262
> www.fsl.com
> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>
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