MaiScanner No loaded

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 05 March 2019 at 19:45:24, Koby Peleg Hen wrote:

> Hello All ,
> I am trying to install MailScanner 5.1.3-2 On debian (ver 9.8)

How?

What instructions are you following?

> but I get this error :
> 
> Mar  5 17:23:38 lab MailScanner: Cannot write pid file
> /var/run/MailScanner.pid/, Is a directory

That seems pretty clear.  MailScanner wants to create a PID *file* in /var/run 
and it finds that there is already a *directory* of the same name present.

> Any Help Please.

Try deleting the directory.

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Regards,


Antony.

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