[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Dimitri Yioulos]

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On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:45 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
> > Scott Silva wrote:
> >> Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 5:33 PM:
> >>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:39 -0700, Scott Silva
> >>>
> >>> <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
> >>>> Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 4:26 PM:
> >>>>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> Delete the copied pid, then stop MailScanner and run
> >>>> touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
> >>>> then restart MailScanner and see if that helps.
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> Any other suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, again,
> >>> Alden
> >>
> >> Did you stop sendmail and run chkconfig sendmail off as per the install
> >> docs?
> >
> > 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.
>
> The tool is called system-switch-mail-nox, it's in /usr/bin so will be
> on your $PATH already.

Hi, Julian.

No postfix processes running.  Our MTA is sendmail.

Dimitri

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