MailScanner on boot
Information Services
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Fri Oct 7 20:16:04 IST 2005
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Yes I do run webmin....I guess I didn't add that to the list of programs
loaded. You will need to educate me on what I should be looking for
here.
On 10/7/05, Dennis Willson <taz at taz-mania.com> wrote:
You don't happen to run Webmin do you? There's a feature to
restart services if they die.
Information Services wrote:
> 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.
>
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