MailScanner lint errors?

Tue Feb 7 02:29:57 GMT 2006

I would like to confirm this identical problem on SUSE 10. I upgraded from
4.50.8 to 4.50.15 yesterday on my two mail relays and am experiencing the
same behavior. Been using MailScanner on SUSE since the beginning of time
and have never seen this before.

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-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve
Campbell
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:06 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: MailScanner lint errors?

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'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.

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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