Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Wed Oct 12 04:50:17 UTC 2016


Remove that BACKUP file from the /conf.d/ directory. It is still being read.


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Jerry Benton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Scott <sales at edenusa.com>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: October 12, 2016 at 12:06:05 AM
To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  RE: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

> Hello Mark,
>
> There are two files in the /etc/MailScanner/conf.d directory, as follows:
>
> MyMailScannerConfig.conf
>
> -and-
>
> README
>
> The MyMailScannerConfig.conf file appears to be a copy of my OLD MailScanner.conf file.
> So that explains partially what is going on, if indeed, the ENTIRE new MailScanner.conf
> is being wiped out by this "include" file. So I renamed that file, and now, lo-and-behold,
> the --lint test works much better, but still has some errors:
>
> [root at mail conf.d]# MailScanner --lint
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/BACKUP
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
> Read 501 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Read 19129 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
> Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist
> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
> Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
>
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (5.0.3) is correct.
>
> Your envelope_sender_header in spamassassin.conf is correct.
>
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> dcc: dccifd -> check skipped: dcc: failed to connect to a socket /var/dcc/dccifd: Connection
> refused
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> Connected to Processing Attempts Database
> Created Processing Attempts Database successfully
> There are 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
> Using locktype = flock
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamav avg"
> mktemp: invalid option -- -
> Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template]
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule
> ===========================================================================
> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> mktemp: invalid option -- -
> Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template]
> ERROR: Option --tempdir requires a non-empty string argument
> ERROR: Can't parse command line options
> ===========================================================================
>
> If any of your virus scanners (clamavmodule)
> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf.
> Config: calling custom end function SQLBlacklist
> Config: calling custom end function MailWatchLogging
> Config: calling custom end function SQLWhitelist
>
> So it looks better now, but I don't see the normal MailScanner messages in the maillog.log,
> like I used to. All of the startup messages appear, for each child, but after that, all
> I see are standard sendmail and popper messages in the log. No MailScanner messages,
> like these:
>
> Sep 11 05:36:17 mail MailScanner[3147]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 6510 bytes
> Sep 11 05:36:17 mail MailScanner[3147]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Sep 11 05:36:57 mail MailScanner[3147]: MCP Checks: Starting
> Sep 11 05:36:57 mail MailScanner[3147]: Expired 1 records from the SpamAssassin cache
> Sep 11 05:37:02 mail MailScanner[3147]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
> Sep 11 05:37:02 mail MailScanner[3147]: Deleted 1 messages from processing-database
> Sep 11 05:37:02 mail MailScanner[3147]: Logging message u8BCaA1A003322 to SQL
> Sep 11 05:37:02 mail MailScanner[3240]: u8BCaA1A003322: Logged to MailWatch SQL
> Sep 11 05:40:07 mail MailScanner[3163]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 8208 bytes
> Sep 11 05:40:07 mail MailScanner[3163]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: MCP Checks: Starting
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Whitelist refresh time reached
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Starting up SQL Whitelist
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Read 17 whitelist entries
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Blacklist refresh time reached
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Starting up SQL Blacklist
> Sep 11 05:40:47 mail MailScanner[3163]: Read 51 blacklist entries
> Sep 11 05:40:53 mail MailScanner[3163]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
> Sep 11 05:40:53 mail MailScanner[3163]: Deleted 1 messages from processing-database
>
> Not sure why this is. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you again! Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+sales=edenusa.com at lists.mailscanner.info]
> On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 8:46 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner
>
> On 10/11/2016 08:29 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> >
> > At this moment, I am still getting the following error using the --lint tests:
> > Checking version numbers...
> > Version installed (5.0.3) does not match version stated in
> > MailScanner.conf file (4.84.5), you may want to run ms-upgrade-conf to
> > ensure your MailScanner.conf file contains all the latest settings.
> >
> > But I don't understand why, since the MailScanner.conf which is in the /etc/MailScanner
> directory, has this line in it, and it IS the correct version:
> >
> > # This is the version number of the MailScanner distribution that
> > created # this configuration file. Please do not change this value.
> > MailScanner Version Number = 5.0.3
>
>
> What's in /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/? and anywhere else that might be
> included from /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf?
>
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