MailScanner problem

[Richard Edge]

Whew!! Problem solved. Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

It appears that during my cleanup yesterday on the one gateway, I had
deleted the /var/clamav directory and its contents. It was a left over
from a previous ClamAV install I must have done for version .81. There
are obviously some configuration files somewhere still pointing to that
directory. I re-install version .87 from an RPM which put things back
the way they were except with version .87 until I can find where the
real problem is. This now allowed MailScanner to load and do its thing
as it should. 

Now I will just have to hunt down which config is still pointing to that
directory.

Richard Edge
Senior Systems Administrator | Technology Services
Trinity Western University | t: 604.513.2089
f: 604.513.2038 | e: edge <at> twu.ca| www.twu.ca/technology 


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Dhawal Doshy
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:08 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanner problem

Richard Edge writes: 

> I am having a problem with MailScanner after upgrading both email 
> gateways yesterday to 4.50.4. Both gateways were upgraded using 
> exactly the same steps but on the primary gateway it is having an 
> issue with delivering email to our Exchange servers. It is receiving 
> the email fine, but it is not being logged to the MailWatch database 
> or being forwarded on to our Exchange server. When starting 
> MailScanner on this gateway I no longer see it finding new batches of 
> received email. and when runnin ps -ax | grep MailScanner I get the
following output:
>  
> 19323 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: starting children 
> 
> 19324 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 19352 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 19360 pts/0    S      0:00 grep MailScanner 
> 
> I have checked other log files but cannot see anything out of the 
> ordinary.
>  
> As mentioned the second gateway is working fine with exactly the same 
> setup. Any suggestion of where to look next?

Did you remember to copy the files in the CustomFunctions dir to the new
installation (not required for RPM based installs) 

 - dhawal

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