MailScanner setup questions

[Julian Field]

On 24 Jun 2005, at 15:51, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Douglas
>
> see inline
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Douglas Ward wrote:
>
>> I have set up an e-mail gateway server using the following  
>> software: MailScanner, Postfix, Mandrake LE2005, ClamAV,  
>> SpamAssassin, and BitDefender.  During the setup I have run into a  
>> few problems.  After much research I have decided to send out  
>> these questions.  I appreciate any advice you could offer.
>> 1) BitDefender will not auto-update.  When I enter the command  
>> "bdc --update" I get the following reply:
>> [root at barnabus etc]# bdc --update
>> BDC/Linux-Console v7.0 (build 2490) (i386) (Dec 10 2003 16:11:35)
>> Copyright (C) 1996-2003 SOFTWIN SRL. All rights reserved.
>> Error: can't find update dll
>> I noticed that in bdc.ini the UpdateHttpLocation field was  
>> pointing to a URL that no longer exists.  I updated it to point to  
>> an ftp site where I have been manually downloading the updates.   
>> The default install was in /opt/bdc which is where the bitdefender- 
>> wrapper is pointing to.  I can see clamav-wrapper and clamscan  
>> appearing in top but do not see bitdefender.
>> 2) Does MailScanner auto update these definition files?  I have  
>> set a cron job to run freshclam periodically and have been  
>> manually updating BitDefender until question number one is  
>> resolved.  Do I need to worry about this?
>>
>
> yes - run /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_virus_scanners (or whereever  
> this is on your system) and it will do all the scanners you have  
> defined in MailScanner.conf

No, it does all the scanners you have defined in virus.scanners.conf  
which will be in the same directory as your MailScanner.conf.

>
>
>> 3) MailScanner has been shutting down at random times overnight.   
>> We can't find errors in any log files on the server.  Is  
>> MailScanner supposed to restart itself periodically?  If so, is  
>> there a restart command I am missing somewhere?  We have set up a  
>> cron job to try to start MailScanner every hour until we get this  
>> figured out.
>>
>
> yes - stops memory leaks. should restart a new one in its place. If  
> not as again.

MailScanner should not stop, it should run forever. Every 4 hours (by  
default, see the "Restart Every" setting) it will kill its worker  
processes and respawn them.

>
>
>> 4) I have downloaded the dcc, pyzor, and razor packages from urpmi  
>> and see pyzor working in top.  Are there any further steps I have  
>> to take to configure/update these packages?  The documentation has  
>> proven rather difficult to figure out.
>>
>
> with pyzor/razor you have run a little update script about once per  
> day. The pyzor one is "/usr/local/bin/pyzor discover". I guess the  
> razor one is similar see the man entry.

There is a similar one for razor as well ("razor -discover"). You  
should do that once a day.

>
>
>> I apologize for dumping so many questions on the list at one  
>> time.  I have put a lot of time into this gateway and am having  
>> difficulty figuring out these four problems.  Despite all of this  
>> e-mail is being delivered properly (unless MailScanner stops) to  
>> several linux and one Exchange server behind the gateway.  I also  
>> appreciate your patience with these newbie questions.  Thanks for  
>> your help!
>>
>
> S'alright, we all have to start somewhere.

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