MailScanner restart problem.

[Rick Bragg]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:05 -0500, Mohammed Alli wrote:
> ________________________________
> 
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Rick Bragg
> Sent: Fri 5/9/2008 8:43 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: MailScanner restart problem.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm building a new system, and today I rebooted it and MailScanner did
> not come up.
> 
> So I started it by hand with the init script, and I got this message:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart
>  * Restarting mail spam/virus scanner MailScanner                                                                            No MailScanner found running; none killed.
>  is only avaliable with the XS version at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/MailScanner//MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/MailScanner//MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 80.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 80.
> 
> 
> Does anybody know what might have happened?
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 server AMD64.  I recently installed a few perl
> modules...
> 
> Thanks!
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi  Rick,
> 
> I've seen this behavior on Ubuntu as well.  The way I got around it was doing the following:
> 
> 
> 9.17 Fix for Ubuntu 8.04 (kept removing directories upon reboot)
> 
> 
> Edit /etc/rc.local and add the following before the exit line:
> 
> mkdir /var/run/MailScanner
> mkdir /var/lock/subsys
> mkdir /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
> chown -R postfix:www-data /var/run/MailScanner
> chown -R postfix:www-data /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
> /etc/init.d/postfix restart
> /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart
> 
> That should do it for you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mohammed Alli
> 
> 

That didn't seem to do it.  I still have the same problem.  also, during
boot, it sail "cannot creat directory `/var/run/MailScanner': File
exists

I am using it with sendmail, clamav, and spamassassin...

Anybody have this same issue?

Thanks
rick