MailScanner lint errors?

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Mon Feb 6 15:05:46 GMT 2006


How do I apply this? I can't seem to uncompress it.

Do I just cd /usr/sbin/ and run

patch -p0 < MailScanner.patch

once this is uncompressed?

Thanks

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: MailScanner lint errors?


Please apply this patch to /usr/sbin/MailScanner and then try it again.




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On 6 Feb 2006, at 14:33, Steve Campbell wrote:

> 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:
>>> 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
>
>>>
>>> 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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