MailScanner on boot

[James Fagan]

> Information Services spake the following on 10/7/2005 9:32 AM:
> > Julian,
> > 
> > I see what you are saying, and I gave it a try, and for some reason 
> > MailScanner starts on it's own.  Thinking about what I have 
> running on 
> > my system:
> > 
> > MailWatch
> > RDJ
> > Spamassassin
> > sendmail
> >  
> > I realized that I had made a config change in 
> /etc/rulesdujour/config 
> > and added SA_RESTART="/etc/init.d/MailScanner restart";
> > 
> > I changed this line to "/root/do_nothing.sh";  and then turned off 
> > MailScanner with 'service MailScanner stop'....rebooted, I 
> have looked 
> > into all my cron jobs, and there is nothing that I can see 
> in cron that
> > would specify MailScanner.  I am not sure what else to 
> check.   About
> > one minute after a reboot MailScanner starts automatically. 
>  What am I 
> > missing here?
> > 
> > On 10/7/05, *Julian Field* <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> > <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
> > 
> >     It's a bit more intelligent than that.
> > 
> >     If you do a "service MailScanner stop" it creates a lockfile in
> >     /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off. When the hourly cron 
> job runs, it
> >     detects the presence of this file and doesn't then start up
> >     MailScanner.
> > 
> >     So all you need to do is a "service MailScanner stop" 
> and it will
> >     stay stopped. No need to mess around with the cron jobs at all.
> > 
> >     On 7 Oct 2005, at 15:45, Information Services wrote:
> > 
> >>     Okay,  I did the 'chkconfig --list MailScanner' and saw the
> >>     different run levels turned on.  So yes, I can see that
> >>     'mailscanner' is not the way to go.  I ran 'chkconfig --levels
> >>     0123456 MailScanner off' and rebooted.  Still the same 
> problem. 
> >>     Denis, I didn't even thought about the cron.hourly job for
> >>     check_MailScanner.  I removed this from the cron.hourly, and
> >>     rebooted....currently wait for system to reboot.......okay
> >>     rebooted now.
> >>
> >>     Looks like removing the check_MailScanner from the cron.hourly
> >>     fixed it.  now when I do a 'service MailScanner 
> status' I get an
> >>     error for sendmail.in.pid and sendmail.out.pid.  This would be
> >>     expected.  now when I decide to use MailScanner on 
> this system, I
> >>     just need to remember to add  check_MailScanner back 
> into cron.hourly.
> >>
> >>     Nate, thanks for clearing up difference between 
> "MailScanner" and
> >>     "mailscanner," this could have continued to haunt me in other
> >>     situations.
> >>
> >>     Casey
> >>
> >>     On 10/7/05, *Denis Beauchemin* < 
> Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca
> >>     <mailto:Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         Information Services wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a CentOS 4.1 system with MailScanner loaded for the
> >>         possibility
> >>> of using in one or our remote locations.  I have gone into
> >>         the GUI
> >>> services and took the check out of MailScanner and Sendmail
> >>         to startup
> >>> at boot, but that did not seem to keep MailScanner from
> >>         starting on a
> >>> boot.  I did a chkconfig and turned off all mailscanner
> >>         levels, and I
> >>> must not understand the purpose of chkconfig, but once again 
> >>> Mailscanner has decided to when the system is booted.  What
> >>         can I do
> >>> to keep MailScanner from running when the system is rebooted?**
> >>
> >>         Maybe /etc/cron.hourly/check_MailScanner is restarting it?
> >>
> >>         OTOH, are you sure MS is completely disabled?  Do 
> "chkconfig
> >>         --list
> >>         MailScanner" and make sure it is off in all run levels.
> Are you running Mailscanner-mrtg?
> The older version had a problem with re-starting mailscanner.
> 
> -- 
>

Maybe try and move temporarily the MailScanner to another dir, then
reboot and then
check your system error logs and see what complains if anything.
Hopefully something will. 

James 

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