oddity on ms start

[Dave Helton]

Odd indeed...

I started poking through my startup script and one of the first things it does is echo "Starting [blah]..." to the terminal.
Since you're not getting that I think I might start looking elsewhere.

There are a few checks at the top of the init script, check networking, check zmailer... etc... and dumps out if anything fails.
Sounds like the script could be failing there since you're not getting any output.

Another possibility is /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner, check the RUNAS user.   Now that I think about it, your startup may not have
enough permissions to start MailScanner but as root you do.  This would not explain everything but it's a start.

What is the restart sequence doing that start is not?

I'd also check that selinux is disabled until you sort it out.

--Dave


From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeremy McSpadden
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:17 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: oddity on ms start

Ok .. lets start over.

If i start using 'restart' .. everything works fine. it starts postfix, processes mail, etc.
If i start using 'start' ... i get nothing. nothing in logs, nothing starts.

The problem is not that MS doesnt work, debug shows no errors. mail flows just fine "ONCE" i get it started using 'restart' .. the init scripts 'start' .. produces absolutely nothing.

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On Oct 27, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Martin Hepworth wrote:


Running in debug (as the postfix user) will you clues as to what's (not) happening

MailScanner --debug

And carefully examine the output

Martin

On Thursday, 27 October 2011, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net<mailto:jeremy at fluxlabs.net>> wrote:
> Nothing is in mail log, it just doesnt even start. I can turn debug on, but thats only to scan a batch and quit; which does me no good if it doesnt start.
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
> And whats in the mail log?
>
> Anything if you run in debug mode?
>
>
> On Thursday, 27 October 2011, Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch<mailto:ms-list at alexb.ch>> wrote:
>> 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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