[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

Scott Silva ssilva at SGVWATER.COM
Thu Sep 22 20:08:56 IST 2005


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Alden Levy spake the following on 9/22/2005 11:44 AM:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:44:19 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at FIRSTBHPH.COM>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thursday 22 September 2005 1:24 pm, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>
>>>Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>>>
>>>>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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>>>
>>>Dimitri,
>>>
>>>What's the output from: netstat -tpa|grep :smtp
>>>
>>>Denis
>>
>>Hi, Denis.
>>
>>I worked with a guy from Sherbrooke once.  Nice person (all Canadians are, in
>>my estimation).  Sorry for the aside, all.
>>
>>Here's the output of :
>>
>>tcp        0      0 *:smtps                     *:*
>>LISTEN      1753/stunnel
>>tcp        0      0 *:smtp                      *:*
>>LISTEN      17087/sendmail: acc
>>
>>Looks like the last line was concatenated, but still gives the general
>>picture.
>>
>>Dimitri
> 
> 
> 
> There are no postfix processes running on my system.  I DID have this
> running properly in an earlier version, but I'll keep checking to make sure
> my host didn't "fix" anything when they were actually fixing another problem.
> 
> The output is:
> # netstat -tpa|grep :smtp
> tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN 
>     25916/sendmail: acc
> 
> I also had the following the first time I ran it
> tcp        0      0 engine.engineno9i:37521 mailwash26.pair.co:smtp TIME_WAIT
> 
> but that's gone now.
> 
> I'm still scratching my head, because it SEEMS to be working (none of my
> clients are complaining).
> 
> Oddly, service MailScanner status returned:
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]
> 
> before I restarted.  Now it's back to:
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
> 
> Stranger and stranger....
> 
> --Alden
> 
Does the sendmail section of /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner look ok?
Especially the inpid and outpid declarations.
Also check /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner for the same thing.
Somewhere, the init scripts have a problem.
Also look for MailScanner.rpmnew. Maybe an old init script is lurking
and the .rpmnew just needs to be renamed.


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