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    As I recall, you don't need Spamassassin to run Mailscanner, so I'd
    be a little careful when you deem it "fixed". I totally agree with
    Jerry here also. It has got to be easier to install Centos and
    maintain it that to use Fedora.<br>
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    steve campbell<br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/2013 3:30 PM, Jerry Benton
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      <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>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Steve
          Campbell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:campbell@cnpapers.com" target="_blank">campbell@cnpapers.com</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Permissions on
              /var/run? Mine show /var/run owned by root with 755 on it.<span
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                  steve campbell</font></span>
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                <div class="h5"><br>
                  <div>On 4/8/2013 1:55 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote:<br>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">I have searched the archives,
                        googled, etc&#8230;I cannot find a solution to this,
                        so if someone has already asked/solved this,
                        please kindly point me to the artice or post.&nbsp;
                        Thanks!</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">I was a long time user of
                        Mailscanner until about a year ago, when my firm
                        bought an appliance &#8211; which I have grown to HATE
                        (in respect to spam/anti-virus)&#8230;so, I am trying
                        to setup a new MailScanner machine&#8230;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">I am getting an error when
                        starting MailScanner.&nbsp; From the logs:</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:57 localhost
                        systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: MailScanner is an
                        open-source E-Mail Gateway Virus Scanner....</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:58 localhost
                        MailScanner[1906]: Starting MailScanner daemons:</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:58 localhost
                        MailScanner[1906]: incoming sendmail: [&nbsp; OK&nbsp; ]</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:58 localhost
                        MailScanner[1906]: outgoing sendmail: [&nbsp; OK&nbsp; ]</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:59 localhost
                        MailScanner[1906]: MailScanner:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&nbsp; OK&nbsp; ]</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:40:59 localhost
                        systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/MailScanner.pid
                        not readable (yet?) after start.</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:42:15 localhost
                        systemd[1]: MailScanner.service never wrote its
                        PID file. Failing.</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 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&nbsp; 8 12:42:15 localhost
                        systemd[1]: Unit MailScanner.service entered
                        failed state</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Apr&nbsp; 8 12:45:16 localhost
                        chronyd[675]: Selected source 198.100.149.6</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">It is failing to write the
                        PID file.&nbsp; Anyone run into this?&nbsp; Any ideas as
                        to the issue, or how to solve?&nbsp; If you need more
                        info, please ask.</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much for any help.</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;_______________________________________________________</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:&quot;Bradley
                          Hand ITC&quot;" lang="EN-US">Q</span><span
                          style="font-size:14.0pt" lang="EN-US">uintin </span><span
                          style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:&quot;Bradley
                          Hand ITC&quot;" lang="EN-US">G</span><span
                          style="font-size:14.0pt" lang="EN-US">iesbrecht</span><span></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="font-size:14.0pt" lang="EN-US">Smith
                          Neufeld Jodoin LLP</span><span></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="font-size:14.0pt" lang="EN-US">IT
                          Manager</span><span></span></p>
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                            href="tel:%28204%29346-5106"
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