Sendmail hijacking Mailscanner

[Gordon Colyn]

Aaaaaah, well spotted Chris!

I did a search and found that there is a logrotate for statistics which has 
a sendmail reload command.

I have commented this out so hopefully this should stop now.  I have no idea 
how it gets invoked but lets see what happens.

Thanks

Gordon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hardy" <chris at clh.org.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail hijacking Mailscanner


Gordon Colyn wrote:
> ITNT Banner CampaignHi all,
>
> I have a problem where somehow sendmail gets started on my Linux server
> running MailScanner and therefore spam mail gets through as it by-passes 
> the
> mailscanner process.  I have crawled through all the logs and have no idea
> what starts the sendmail process and it is also completely random...very
> frustrating.  Does anyone know of a script or a way that I can test to see
> if sendmail is running then stop the process automatically?
>
> I am running Mandriva 2006, with sendmail 8.13.4.
>
> thanks
>
> Gordon Colyn
>
Hi Gordon,

I had the same problem - and it came down to a logrotate issue - one of
them wanted to stop and start sendmail within it..
I removed the sendmail line from the script, and hey-presto, no more
sendmail taking over :)

If i remember the file, i'll let you know, but check the files in the
/etc/logrotate.d directory - one of them has it in there

HTH

chris

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