Re: [cobalt-users] Bassi Mailscanner Problem

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -SNIP-
> > Heya Folks,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble with the bassi mailscanner.
> > I'm using a version from a while ago on my raq3, as I'm not sure if an
> > update has come out yet.
> > But basically the mailscanner seems to return an error when shutting down.
> >
> > According to the process list it is running (ps -aux), but whenever I
> > attempt to restart it (e.g. after a manual virus definition update), it
> > gives an error.
> > Restarting, immediately after I've retsarted it produces the same problem,
> > so it's not a quirk of updating the definitions.
> > Is this a problem, or this normal (and mail scanner is actually working) ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kameel.
> >
> > [root@www /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart
> > Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> >                MailScanner:       ERROR!
> >                incoming sendmail: sendmail ok
> >                outgoing sendmail: sendmail ok
> > Starting MailScanner daemons:
> >           incoming sendmail: ok
> >           outgoing sendmail: ok
> >           MailScanner:       ok

Hi Kameel,

I have been working with the MailScanner quite a bit lately! I've been 
trying to integrate SpamAssassin with it, to no avail. The SpamAssassin 
part just does not work with it yet. The SpamAssassin part is not embedding 
the additional header in any email and spam slides smoothly through. I have 
it set up on a dedicated test mail server. If anyone would like to help me 
with this, please respond and I'll send my specifics.

To answer your question with a crude solution; someone better at shell 
scripting, pipe in!
Use:
1) /ect/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner stop
2) ps aux |grep mailscanner
3) kill the PID of the results of you ps aux
4) /ect/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner start

Unless you have fatal errors in the config file, that shoudl do it. See 
what's going on, error-wise, with

tail /var/log/maillog

Cheers,
Glenn