General Thankyou (still diagnosing fault)

Dave Filchak submit at zuka.net
Mon Jan 12 19:59:42 GMT 2009


Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> On 12/1/09 16:41, Dave Filchak wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> The cron job will probably put it back. Okay, next let's find if it 
>>> is the script run by cron that is causing the problem, or the 
>>> environment in which it is run.
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners
>>> ls -al /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks
>>>
>>> and show me the output of those two. I want to see if the 
>>> update_virus_scanners script successfully finds the uid and gid or not.
>> /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners
>> lduid = , ldgid =
>>
>> Does not appear to.
> Aha, we're getting somewhere.
> Now edit /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners.
> At the very top there are 3 lines which set LOCKDIR, RUNASU and RUNASG.
> Immediately after them add these 3 lines
> echo LOCKDIR = \'$LOCKDIR\'
> echo RUNASU = \'$RUNASU\'
> echo RUNASG = \'$RUNASG\'
>
> Then run /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners as root.
>
> I am hoping it will print something like this:
> LOCKDIR = '/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks'
> RUNASU = 'postfix'
> RUNASG = 'postfix'
> lduid = 89, ldgid = 89
> Let us see what your version prints.
>
> We should be able to sort this pretty soon, we're getting very close 
> to the source of the problem.
>
> Jules
>
OK ... this is what I got from the first addition:

/usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners
LOCKDIR = '/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks'
RUNASU = 'postfix '
RUNASG = 'postfix '
lduid = , ldgid =

Then with the addition of the second part, I get:

/usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners
LOCKDIR = '/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks'
RUNASU = 'postfix'
RUNASG = 'postfix'
lduid = 80, ldgid = 80

which looks much better ... yes?

Dave


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