MailScanner lint errors?

[Steve Campbell]

Julian,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: MailScanner lint errors?


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> On 6 Feb 2006, at 14:05, Steve Campbell wrote:
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>> Julian,
>>
>> I'm seeing the same with respect to the PID file. My conf file  
>> points to /var/run/ and the file does exist.
> 
> I'll take a look at this problem. What are your "Run As User" and  
> "Run As Group" set to?
> 

These are set to <blank>, nothing. The PID file is owned by root.root.

This does not seem to affect anything and MS runs with the error.


>> I'm also seeing the dual restart problem, where I am required to  
>> start MS twice if I stop it. I alway need to 'killall sendmail',  
>> but this doesn't cause the need to start MS twice. There are no  
>> sendmail processes running before I start MS. There are no log  
>> errors, it just doesn't start. I just thought I would mention this  
>> off-thread part in case it might have something to do with the PID  
>> problem.
> 
> Most likely cause is not waiting long enough between stopping and  
> starting. If there are any MailScanner processes still clearing up,  
> then it won't start.
> Just restarting it again will extend the delay.

I'll check the MailScanner processes before the next manual restarts.

Thanks again. (I can never say that enough to you, Mr. Field)

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers

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>>
>> MS 4.50-15
>> MailWatch 1.0.3
>> SA 3.10 (or whatever was the latest as of last week)
>> Tao Linux 1.0 Update 6
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Steve Campbell
>> campbell at cnpapers.com
>> Charleston Newspapers
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Doris" <gdoris at rogers.com>
>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner lint errors?
>>
>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>> I strongly suspect that none are relevant, apart from the Cannot  
>>>> write pid file error. Check this is set to something in your  
>>>> MailScanner.conf file.
>>>
>>> I checked MailScanner.conf and the MailScanner PID is set to /var/ 
>>> run/MailScanner.pid  The file is really there and is being used.
>>>
>>> Like I said, there are no errors in any logs and mail is being  
>>> sent and received.  It was working but I can't remember the last  
>>> time I tried it.
>>>
>>> I'm using the latest MailWatch.  Would that be confusing the  
>>> MailScanner lint operation?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gerry Doris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've started seeing errors after running MailScanner --lint  
>>>>> which I haven't seen before.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was running 4.50.10 and decided to upgrade to 4.50.15 today.  
>>>>> Everything went well and MailScanner is working properly.  I see  
>>>>> no errors in any of the logs.  Mail is being accepted and  
>>>>> delivered.
>>>>>
>>>>> MailScanner -v runs without errors but when I run MailScanner -- 
>>>>> lint I get the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at tiger MailScanner]# MailScanner --lint
>>>>> Read 701 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>>>>> Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist
>>>>> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
>>>>> Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
>>>>> Cannot write pid file , No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ 
>>>>> MailScanner line 1238
>>>>> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
>>>>> Using SpamAssassin results cache
>>>>> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
>>>>> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamavmodule f-prot  
>>>>> trend bitdefender"
>>>>>
>>>>> Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/lib/MailScanner/ 
>>>>> MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 2879.
>>>>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at / 
>>>>> usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 2880.
>>>>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at / 
>>>>> usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 2880.
>>>>> Can't exec "-IsItInstalled": No such file or directory at /usr/ 
>>>>> lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 2882.
>>>>> ...snip
>>>>> the above is repeated 5 more times
>>>>> ...snip
>>>>>
>>>>> Found these virus scanners installed: bitdefender, f-prot,  
>>>>> clamavmodule, trend
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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