Cron Hourly

[Glenn Steen]

On 20/02/06, Robert Davison <rob_27_preston at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I did the command as root and all went ok. What does this mean ?
>
> Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/02/06, Robert Davison wrote:
> > OK, i've looked at the check_MailScanner script which has the lines....
> >
> > LOCKFILE=/var/lock/check_Mailscanner.lock
> > MS_LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
> >
> > I dont have a /var/lock/check_MailScanner file, and also no
> > /var/lock/subsys/MalScanner.off file .... but there is a
> > MailScanner file here.
> >
> And if you run the script (as root) it still reports the error? That'd
> be a bit strange, provided what you say here is correct.
> Can you (as root)
> touch /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
> rm /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
> ...?
>

It tells us that there currently isn't anything wrong with your setup:-).
Unless it still generates the error message you qouted in the initial
message, when run crom cron.hourly...

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