Fedora 18 and MailScanner

[Steve Campbell]

As I recall, you don't need Spamassassin to run Mailscanner, so I'd be a 
little careful when you deem it "fixed". I totally agree with Jerry here 
also. It has got to be easier to install Centos and maintain it that to 
use Fedora.

steve campbell
On 4/8/2013 3:30 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> No what I mean is there might not even be a /var/run. It may be 
> /usr/lib/run on his system. Point is that he needs to check the path 
> used in MailScanner.conf as the first step.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com 
> <mailto:campbell at cnpapers.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>>
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>>
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>>
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