Fedora 18 and MailScanner

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Mon Apr 8 19:41:11 IST 2013


Permissions on /var/run? Mine show /var/run owned by root with 755 on it.

steve campbell
On 4/8/2013 1:55 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote:
>
> I have searched the archives, googled, etc...I cannot find a solution 
> to this, so if someone has already asked/solved this, please kindly 
> point me to the artice or post.  Thanks!
>
> I was a long time user of Mailscanner until about a year ago, when my 
> firm bought an appliance -- which I have grown to HATE (in respect to 
> spam/anti-virus)...so, I am trying to setup a new MailScanner machine...
>
> I am getting an error when starting MailScanner.  From the logs:
>
> Apr  8 12:40:57 localhost systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: MailScanner is an 
> open-source E-Mail Gateway Virus Scanner....
>
> Apr  8 12:40:58 localhost MailScanner[1906]: Starting MailScanner daemons:
>
> Apr  8 12:40:58 localhost MailScanner[1906]: incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>
> Apr  8 12:40:58 localhost MailScanner[1906]: outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>
> Apr  8 12:40:59 localhost MailScanner[1906]: MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>
> Apr  8 12:40:59 localhost systemd[1]: PID file 
> /var/run/MailScanner.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
>
> Apr  8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]: MailScanner.service never wrote 
> its PID file. Failing.
>
> Apr  8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: 
> MailScanner is an open-source E-Mail Gateway Virus Scanner..
>
> Apr  8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]: Unit MailScanner.service entered 
> failed state
>
> Apr  8 12:45:16 localhost chronyd[675]: Selected source 198.100.149.6
>
> It is failing to write the PID file. Anyone run into this?  Any ideas 
> as to the issue, or how to solve?  If you need more info, please ask.
>
> Thanks so much for any help.
>
>  _______________________________________________________
>
> Quintin Giesbrecht
>
> Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP
>
> IT Manager
>
> q at snj.ca <mailto:q at snj.ca>
>
> (204)346-5106
>
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