[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help
Alden Levy
alden at ENGINENO9INC.COM
Thu Sep 22 21:18:33 IST 2005
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:08:56 -0700, Scott Silva <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
>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.
>
>
>--
That's it! Scott (and everyone else): Thank you! It WAS the init scripts.
After viewing MailScanner.rpmnew in both /etc/sysconfig and
/etc/rc.d/init.d and comparing them with MailScanner, I realized that they
needed to be replaced.
Thank you!
--Alden
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