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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Quintin Giesbrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:q@snj.ca" target="_blank">q@snj.ca</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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Well, I have it all running now, I have never used any distro other than RH, and then Fedora, so I stuck with what I know….is the general feeling that CentOS
is the best distro for a MailScanner box?</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Campbell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> April-08-13 2:44 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> ***POTENTIALLY SPAM*** Re: Fedora 18 and MailScanner</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/8/2013 3:30 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Steve Campbell <<a href="mailto:campbell@cnpapers.com" target="_blank">campbell@cnpapers.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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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>
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<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">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>
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<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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