3rd time asking, HOW DO I UNINSTALL MAILSCANNER FROM FREEBSD????????????

[Lars Kristiansen]

Michael S. wrote:
> Ok, well I have installed many modules via ports including DCC, Pyzor
> updates to outdated packages etc and I have NEVER had issues with ports!
>   

FWIW, I have never had any issues like you have had with the mailscanner 
port.

> I have MailScanner up and running and it seems to be doing what's its
> supposed to be after struggling with it for about 2hrs. I had to move the
> mailscanner.sh and mta.sh to the proper directories since these were not
> copied properly. Also, I believe im missing the crons, the ones that restart
> MS on the hour and do the updates to the virus scanners. Those I don't see
> anywhere.
>
>   
'pkg_info -Lx MailScanner' will show what files are installed by that port.
It will help you to find one of those files you are missing in:
/usr/local/libexec/MailScanner/
But you will need to edit a crontab to run it.

I do  not think you the need the restarting cronscript any more.
 From /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
# To avoid resource leaks, re-start periodically
Restart Every = 14400

> Talk about a big frustration. I have been using MS on RH for years and in
> fact wrote the first HOWTO and was the first person to actually offer a
> solution with Exim + Cpanel. So this is nothing new to me. But the ports
> installation is a big mess and the installation is incomplete. Because Im
>   

I respectfully disagree. Personally, I like this port.

> not somewhat of a newbie at this, I pretty much had a good idea what to do
> to get this going on FreeBSD but I already see the horror of having to do
> this again when upgrading, granted it will probably mess up the entire
> installation and will not work as instructed in your one page layout.
>   
If I may be so bold:
Something on your computer is somewhat different from the most usual.
I would try to find out what, before starting to write patches if necessary.


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Regards from Lars