Sendmail hijacking Mailscanner

[Andrew Hodges]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: 15 January 2007 16:44
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Sendmail hijacking Mailscanner
> 
> On 15/01/07, Andy Norris <andy at tireswing.net> wrote:
> >
> > We have the same problem. Only we're running Ensim. We've 
> > back-burnered this for too long, and we need to find out what's 
> > starting all these rogue instances of sendmail, so I will 
> be watching 
> > this thread.
> >
> (snip)
> Ok, it's "faint recollection time" then:-).
> I recall looking very briefly at this a while back. Problem 
> with control panels like ensim is that they want a certain 
> "feel" to the startup scripts, and (IIRC) wants to start up 
> sendmail in a "controlized" startup script, and MailScanner 
> in another (or was it the same? Not the stock one though, 
> from Jules packages, IIRC that is:-).
> So ... things just might be "set to go wrong":-):-). If there 
> isn't a sizable pause for sendmail to close all children, 
> what happens then?
> If the "every 4 hours check_MailScanner" script runs and 
> don't find the lockfile it expects, what happens then?
> If you replace the script as supplied by ensim (for sendmail) 
> with the MailScanner stock one... Does that do all that ensim 
> wants it to?
> 
> I really don't know, I'm just asking the questions you should 
> be looking for answers to... From my very faint recollections 
> of previous threads and a very cursory look at some of the 
> panels out there (Yeah, I suffer from plain ol' RALM (L for Lossy;-)).
> 

Hi,

I had a very similar problem to this under BlueQuartz.

Found that the easiest solution was as follows....

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
mv sendmail sendmail.old
chmod a-x sendmail.old
ln -s MailScanner sendmail

Might not be the best solution, but in my case it keeps the system
happy.

Hope it helps
Andy Hodges





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