<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Steve Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:campbell@cnpapers.com" target="_blank">campbell@cnpapers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Permissions on /var/run? Mine show /var/run owned by root with 755
on it.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>On 4/8/2013 1:55 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht
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<p class="MsoNormal">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!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am getting an error when starting
MailScanner. From the logs:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:57 localhost systemd[1]:
Starting SYSV: MailScanner is an open-source E-Mail Gateway
Virus Scanner....</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:58 localhost
MailScanner[1906]: Starting MailScanner daemons:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:58 localhost
MailScanner[1906]: incoming sendmail: [ OK ]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:58 localhost
MailScanner[1906]: outgoing sendmail: [ OK ]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:59 localhost
MailScanner[1906]: MailScanner: [ OK ]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:40:59 localhost systemd[1]: PID
file /var/run/MailScanner.pid not readable (yet?) after start.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]:
MailScanner.service never wrote its PID file. Failing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]:
Failed to start SYSV: MailScanner is an open-source E-Mail
Gateway Virus Scanner..</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:42:15 localhost systemd[1]: Unit
MailScanner.service entered failed state</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apr 8 12:45:16 localhost chronyd[675]:
Selected source 198.100.149.6</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much for any help.</p>
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