phishing whitelist not loading

[Sam Lewis]

Thanks for the suggestion.  The problem, it seems, was far too  
simple.  Somehow I ended up with an empty phishing.safe.sites.conf  
file in the /etc/MailScanner/rules directory and the MailScanner.conf  
file pointed to that file.  When the updated phishing.safe.sites.conf  
file was downloaded via cron, it was placed in /etc/MailScanner.

Will MailScanner try to create the phishing.safe.sites.conf file if  
none exists and the system is supposed to perform phishing scans?   
The only thing I can figure out is that on some systems, I forced the  
cron job to run so that an up-to-date phishing.safe.sites.conf file  
existed before the upgraded MailScanner was run for the first time,  
and on the problem systems, I did not.

Regards,
--Sam

On Nov 26, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Julian Field wrote:

> 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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