MailScanner on boot

[Information Services]

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You were right...MailScanner-mrtg looks like it is causing the
problem...here is what I just got from my log

Oct  7 14:45:03 wks-lin8 MailScanner-MRTG[2873]: Number of MailScanner
processes below threshold, restarting MailScanner

I guess I don't understand how MailScanner-MRTG is restarting when I
commented out all the lines in cron.d files.





On 10/7/05, Information Services <lbcadmin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running MailScanner-mrtg v. 0.10.00-1
>  I have gone into /etc/cron.d where MailScanner-mrtg located and commented out lines in mrtg, and mailscanner-mrtg.crond but that didn't help.
>
>  I will see if moving MailScanner to a different directory and see what happens
>
>
>
> On 10/7/05, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com > wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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