Mailscanner and darwin?

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Thu Jul 6 09:11:23 IST 2006


Evan

You'll probably have to force the "Lock Type" in MailScanner.conf to be
either posix of flock depending on your MTA.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Evan Platt
> Sent: 06 July 2006 00:32
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Mailscanner and darwin?
> 
> Just installed MailScanner 4.55-7.1 today on a OS/X (Darwin) Box. Install
> went smooth, however my mail log is getting hammered with this about every
> 10 seconds:
> 
> 
> 
> Jul  5 16:31:31 www MailScanner[4506]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.55.7 starting...\n
> Jul  5 16:31:32 www MailScanner[4506]: Read 746 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist\n
> Jul  5 16:31:33 www MailScanner[4506]: Using SpamAssassin results cache\n
> Jul  5 16:31:33 www MailScanner[4506]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache
> database\n
> Jul  5 16:31:33 www MailScanner[4506]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: Your "Incoming Work Directory"
> should be specified as an absolute path, not including any links. But I
> will work okay anyway.\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: Using locktype = posix\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 1\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 2\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 3\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 4\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 5\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: Don't know how to do fcntl locking
> on 'darwin'\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: Please contact mailscanner
> authors.5\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 4\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 3\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 2\n
> Jul  5 16:31:38 www MailScanner[4506]: 1\n
> 
> 
> I looked through the documantation and the MailScanner.conf and didn't see
> one, how to disable the fcntl error, and second, how to stop it from
> logging the same entries to the log about every 30 seconds.
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Evan
> 
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