oddity on ms start

Alex Broens ms-list at alexb.ch
Thu Oct 27 18:13:57 IST 2011


On 2011-10-27 18:57, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
> I'm setting up a new test machine using cent os 5, and for some reason MS does not start using the init script 'start' .. i have to use 'restart'
>
> [root at smtp2]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux smtp2.domain.comt 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 20:59:45 EDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> [root at smtp2 /]# /etc/init.d/mailscanner status
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>           MailScanner:       stopped
> [root at smtp2 /]# /etc/init.d/mailscanner start
> [root at smtp2 /]# /etc/init.d/mailscanner status
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>           MailScanner:       stopped
> [root at smtp2 /]#
>
>
> [root at smtp2 /]# /etc/init.d/mailscanner start
> [root at smtp2 /]#
>
> [root at smtp2 /]# /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>           MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>           incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>           outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
> Waiting for MailScanner to die gracefully ... dead.
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>           outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>           MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>
> Anyone know a resolve on this ?

did you do:

chkconfig postfix off

after installing MS?


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