***POTENTIALLY SPAM*** Re: Fedora 18 and MailScanner

[Jerry Benton]

If you want to use a RH distro, then yes, CentOS or Red Hat proper. Fedora
is nearly identical as far as CLI and file locations to CentOS and RH.



On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht <q at snj.ca> wrote:

>  Well, I have it all running now, I have never used any distro other than
> RH, and then Fedora, so I stuck with what I know….is the general feeling
> that CentOS is the best distro for a MailScanner box?
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> Thanks!
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> Q
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> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of *Steve Campbell
> *Sent:* April-08-13 2:44 PM
> *To:* MailScanner discussion
> *Subject:* ***POTENTIALLY SPAM*** Re: Fedora 18 and MailScanner
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> 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:
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>  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.
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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>
> wrote:
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> Permissions on /var/run? Mine show /var/run owned by root with 755 on it.
>
> steve campbell
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> On 4/8/2013 1:55 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote:
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>  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!
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> 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:
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> Apr  8 12:40:58 localhost MailScanner[1906]: incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
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> Apr  8 12:40:58 localhost MailScanner[1906]: outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks so much for any help.
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>  _______________________________________________________
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> Quintin Giesbrecht
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> Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP
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> IT Manager
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> q at snj.ca
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> (204)346-5106
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