/usr/sbin/MailScanner.xxxxxx files

[Gary Faith]

Hey, this is something that even I can answer!  These are backups of MailScanner.  Check /root/bin and you will probably see files like these with the main one being bold below.  There should be a cron job in /etc/cron.monthly that run the /root/bin/mailscanner-backup.sh script.
 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Jan  8  2012 delmsback-20120108.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Feb  9  2012 delmsback-20120209.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Mar 10  2012 delmsback-20120310.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Apr 11  2012 delmsback-20120411.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 May 12  2012 delmsback-20120512.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Jun 13  2012 delmsback-20120613.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Jul 14 09:30 delmsback-20120714.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Aug 15 09:45 delmsback-20120815.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Sep 16 10:00 delmsback-20120916.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Oct 16 19:45 delmsback-20121016.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Nov  4 23:00 delmsback-20121104.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Dec  5 23:28 delmsback-20121205.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   186 Jan  6 23:30 delmsback-20130106.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root   571 Feb 20  2011 mailscanner-backup.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Jan  8  2012 restorems-20120108.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Feb  9  2012 restorems-20120209.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Mar 10  2012 restorems-20120310.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Apr 11  2012 restorems-20120411.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 May 12  2012 restorems-20120512.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Jun 13  2012 restorems-20120613.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Jul 14 09:30 restorems-20120714.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Aug 15 09:45 restorems-20120815.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Sep 16 10:00 restorems-20120916.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Oct 16 19:45 restorems-20121016.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Nov  4 23:00 restorems-20121104.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Dec  5 23:28 restorems-20121205.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   228 Jan  6 23:30 restorems-20130106.sh
 
Gary

>>> "Paul R. Ganci" <ganci at nurdog.com> 1/8/2013 12:18 AM >>>
Perhaps this has been going on for a while now, but I just discovered that MailScanner seems to be creating files like MailScanner.xxxxxx in /usr/sbin every time I do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart on a CentOS 5.8 system. What are these files, why are they created in /usr/sbin and can that be changed?

Thanks for your help.
-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)
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