[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 5:33 PM:
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>>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:39 -0700, Scott Silva <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
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>>>Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 4:26 PM:
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>>>>Sorry for the duplicate messages.  I realized that I had written the
>>>>messages first from my mail program, then from the web interface, and--after
>>>>realizing that noone would get these messages--from the jiscmail interface.
>>>>
>>>>In any event, I still have one problem, but it still looks like it's
>>>>working, namely:
>>>>       incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such file or
>>>>directory
>>>>
>>>>There was no file named sendmail.in.pid, so I copied sendmail.pid over.
>>>>While the system works, when I check the status of MailScanner, I get:
>>>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>        MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>        incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>>        outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>>
>>>>However, I seem to have the same services running as I had this morning.  I
>>>>am able to send emails to accounts on this box from outside accounts, as
>>>>well as send emails from accounts on this box to accounts outside this box
>>>>(and, of course, emails between accounts on this box).
>>>>
>>>>Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Alden
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>>>Delete the copied pid, then stop MailScanner and run
>>>touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
>>>then restart MailScanner and see if that helps.
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>>I tried that. When I check service MailScanner status, I get:
>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>
>>And in my mail logs, I get:
>>Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
>>Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
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>>Any other suggestions?
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>>Thanks, again,
>>Alden
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>Did you stop sendmail and run chkconfig sendmail off as per the install
>docs?
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Can you check if you have any postfix processes running? Many RedHat 
systems ship using Postfix by default instead of sendmail. There is a 
tool somewhere to switch which MTA you are using on your RedHat setup.

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