MailSacanner don't work

[A. Eijkhoudt]

Hello Claudio,

So far I've seen nothing in your E-mails to indicate that MailScanner 
should not be working properly. You seem to have both the Sendmail 
processes (queue runners) running, and your process list shows 
MailScanner with its childs forked & running as well.

Please note that MailScanner will NOT show up 'listening on a port' with 
netstat. It is merely a program that sits idly by until it sees the 
sendmail processes put mail in their respective queues.

Also, the init script might just be 'thinking' MailScanner is dead 
because it is not seeing the correct process id(s).

Could you please tell us how you concluded that MailScanner is not 
working? Have you sent an E-mail while running a 'tail -f' of your 
mail.log/maillog file and seen anything happen (errors or not)?

Regards,

A. Eijkhoudt

Claudio Mundin wrote:
> I install in Suse 10 Enterprise
> 
> the log with some output is /var/log/mail
> 
> and the out put is:
> 
> 
> Mar  9 07:06:14 fw sendmail-client[4132]: starting daemon (8.13.6): 
> persistent-queueing at 00:01:00
> Mar  9 07:06:14 fw sendmail-client[4132]: unable to write pid to 
> /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm- client.pid: Permission denied
> Mar  9 07:06:14 fw sendmail-out[4136]: starting daemon (8.13.6): 
> queueing at 00:30:00
> Mar  9 07:06:16 fw MailScanner[4156]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner 
> version 4.54.6 starting...
> Mar  9 07:06:16 fw MailScanner[4156]: Read 764 hostnames from the 
> phishing whitelist
> Mar  9 07:06:17 fw MailScanner[4156]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Mar  9 07:06:17 fw MailScanner[4156]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache 
> database
> Mar  9 07:06:17 fw MailScanner[4156]: Enabling SpamAssassin 
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Mar  9 07:06:24 fw MailScanner[4156]: ClamAV scanner using unrar command 
> /usr/bin/unrar
> Mar  9 07:06:24 fw MailScanner[4156]: Using locktype = flock
> 
> 2007/3/9, --[ UxBoD ]-- < uxbod at splatnix.net <mailto:uxbod at splatnix.net>>:
> 
>     On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:45:51 -0300
>     "Claudio Mundin" <clamun at gmail.com <mailto:clamun at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I install MailSacanner with out any errors, but when i try to star up
>      > MailScanner (/etc/init.d/MailScanner start) and I try to see the
>      > status, the result of status is dead.
>      >
>      > where can i see information about the error??
>      >
>      > THANK
>      >
>     Dependant on O/S but try /var/log/messages as a starter.
> 
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