phishing whitelist not loading

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Nov 26 16:13:39 GMT 2005


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Have you compared the permissions and ownership of the file? I can't 
remember quite when it reads that file, but it may well be after it has 
changed uid to the "Run As User". Are you sure it is even reading your 
MailScaner.conf? I have known that before and people have not actually 
noticed :-)

Sam Lewis wrote:

> I just upgraded to MailScanner-4.47.4-2 on CentOS and Redhat  
> systems.  The upgrade went fine, and everything seems to be working  
> except for one minor issue.  While all systems have managed to load  
> (and update daily) the phishing.safe.sites.conf file, two of my  
> systems refuse to read it.  When MailScanner starts on those systems,  
> I get the message in the maillog that MailScanner read 0 hostnames  
> from the phishing whitelist.
>
> Any idea why some machines would read this file just fine, and others  
> would not?  Any suggestions for debugging this?


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