Fedora 18 and MailScanner

[Jerry Benton]

And it is probably failing to write to the PID because the directory
defined in the MailScanner.conf does not exists.


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com>wrote:

> Before I even look at any of those errors, I would suggest simply staying
> away from Fedora for a server platform. I do not support it with Mailborder
> due to its buggy nature and rapid deployment cycle. I would suggest
> sticking with CentOS (or RH proper) if you want to go with a RH clone.
>
> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht <q at snj.ca> 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…
>>
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>> I am getting an error when starting MailScanner.  From the logs:
>>
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>> 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
>>
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>>  _______________________________________________________
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>> Quintin Giesbrecht
>>
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>> q at snj.ca
>>
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