MailScanner 5.0.2 and Ubuntu server 16.04 first attempt

Patrick Goupell patrick at yoopermail.us
Wed Jun 15 19:59:58 UTC 2016


Configured postfix and sent a test email thru.  Got the following.

Searching for calmd lstat failed gives me some results about selinux and 
apparmor.

Not sure what to do now.

Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 
1127 bytes
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 clamd[854]: WARNING: lstat() failed on: 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/1678
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: Clamd::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD 
RETURN ./lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR :: 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/1678
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 1 
infections
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner[1678]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun 15 15:45:54 efa1 MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 
255 with signal 0





On 06/15/2016 03:31 PM, Patrick Goupell wrote:
> Running as root user in /tmp shows no errors.  Onward I go.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> On 06/15/2016 02:45 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> - Pretty sure you need to run “MailScanner —lint” as the root user …
>>
>> - Do not the command from the /root directory. Change to /tmp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> +1 - 844-436-6245
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us>
>> Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Date: June 15, 2016 at 2:35:16 PM
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject:  MailScanner 5.0.2 and Ubuntu server 16.04 first attempt
>>
>>> This is my first attempt with both ubuntu and mailscanner.
>>>
>>> Did a clean install of ubuntu server 16.04
>>>
>>> downloaded and ran the mailscanner-5.0.2 install.sh
>>>
>>> Did a basic configuration of MailScanner.
>>>
>>> Ran MailScanner --lint
>>>
>>> Got the following errors (permissions?). User is postfix and group is
>>> mtagroup as set by the install script and configuration settings. Do I
>>> need to do anything with apparmor?
>>>
>>> patrick at efa1:/etc/apparmor.d/local$ MailScanner --lint
>>> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>>> Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at
>>> /usr/sbin/ms-create-locks line 48.
>>> Error: Attempt to create locks in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks
>>> failed!
>>>
>>> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
>>> Read 501 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>>> Read 16128 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
>>> Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
>>> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
>>> Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist
>>>
>>> Checking version numbers...
>>> Version number in MailScanner.conf (5.0.2) is correct.
>>>
>>> Your envelope_sender_header in spamassassin.conf is correct.
>>> Cannot create temporary Work Dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/1343.
>>> Are the permissions and ownership of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>>> correct? at /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 
>>> 147.
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
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>>
>

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