Start/Stop script for mailScanner

[Will Merkens]

On 12:59 PM, Stephen Swaney wrote:
> Will,
>
> some observations are below.
>
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Will Merkens wrote:
>
>> System:
>>
>> MailScanner 4.80.1
>> Sendmail 8.14.3
>>
>> I am finding a issue with the /etc/init.d/MailScanner start/stop
>> script as it is not seem to be stopping sendmail.
>>
>>
>
> Is sendmail still being started by the systems default init script?
> The MailScanner script should be used to start sendmail, NOT the
> systems default script.
>
> You can see if this is the porblem:
>
> 1. Stop MailScanner using the MailScanner init script
> 2. Kill any sendmail processes that are still running
> 3. Start MailScanner using the MailScanner init script
>
> If MailScanner starts working, this was the problem.
>
> You don't say what OS you are using but from the location of the
> MailScanner start script, But it looks like it might be Red Hat,
> CentOS od som other similar Linux variant. If so these commands might
> also help.
>
> To see if the systems sendmail init script is configured "on", run:
>
> chkconfig sendmail --list
>
> This should return 
>
> sendmail        0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
>
> Anything else is a problem.
>
> To turn off the systems sendmail init script run:
>
> chkconfig sendmail off
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Steve
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Yes I made sure that any service related to MailScanner including
sendmail were in a none startup at any runlevel state.

MailScanner     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off  
7:off

clamav-milter   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off  
7:off
clamd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off  
7:off
freshclam       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off  
7:off

sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off  
7:off

spamd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off  
7:off


so the ps ax shows this before I issue a stop

[root at gateway ~]# ps ax | grep send
 2251 pts/5    R+     0:00 grep --color send
 2765 ?        Ss     0:05 sendmail: accepting
connections                                                                                                                

 2769 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue                 
 2775 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/mqueue      
[root at gateway ~]# ps ax | grep Mail
 2258 pts/5    R+     0:00 grep --color Mail
 2820 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: starting child
16646 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
22250 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
23869 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
26508 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
32443 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages

Now issue the stop

[root at gateway ~]# service MailScanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
        
MailScanner:                                                                   
[  OK  ]
        
incoming                                                                       
[  OK  ]
        
outgoing                                                                       
[  OK  ]

ps ax for sendmail

root at gateway ~]# ps ax | grep send
 2706 pts/5    R+     0:00 grep --color send
 2769 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue           


still running

issue a start

Starting MailScanner daemons:
        
incoming                                                                  [ 
OK  ]
        
outgoing                                                                  [ 
OK  ]
        
MailScanner:                                                              [ 
OK  ]


ps ax  sendmail and MailScanner

[root at gateway ~]# ps ax | grep send
 2769 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue                 
 2941 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: accepting
connections                                                                                                                

 2945 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue                 
 2951 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/mqueue      
 3102 pts/5    R+     0:00 grep --color send
[root at gateway ~]# ps ax | grep Mail
 2973 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
sleeping
 2974 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
 3030 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
 3037 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
 3041 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
 3045 ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for messages
 3106 pts/5    R+     0:00 grep --color Mail


we can see that there now is 2 clientmqueue, the old one and the new one.

Now it wont work till I stop MailScanner, kill the sendmail pid's and
restart it all.










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