Re: Fwd: Re: [cobalt-users] F-prot config question - Upgrade F-prot with Mailscanner

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:40, denial wrote:
> >-snip-
> >
> >
> >If anyone has made any progress on this though then appreciate if you can
> >post.
>
> MailScanner seems to have restarted itself and now runs correctly with the
> upgraded f-prot so is now scanning mails correctly. Not sure exactly why
> this is the case now as I haven't changed anything (left a tail running on
> maillog and noticed the change) so will have a check through the code
> sometime later.
>
>          Dan
>
> Aug 20 10:03:59 mailhost mailscanner[16705]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 3.22
>   starting.
> Aug 20 10:03:59 mailhost mailscanner[16705]: Configuring mailscanner for
> sendmail...
> Aug 20 10:03:59 mailhost mailscanner[16705]: Using locktype = flock
>
> Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Scanning 1 messages, 1520
> bytes Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Found 1 viruses in
> messages h7K9CWI27778
> Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Scanned 1 messages, 1520 bytes
> in 0 seconds
> Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Saved infections to
> /home/spool/MailScanner/q
> uarantine/20030820/h7K9CWI27778
> Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost sendmail[27805]: h7K9D1s27805: from=postmaster,
> size=629, class=0
> , nrcpts=1, msgid=<200308200913.h7K9D1s27805@ >, relay=root@loca
> lhost
> Aug 20 10:13:01 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Notified senders about 1
> infections
> Aug 20 10:13:02 mailhost sendmail[27815]: h7K9D2q27815: from=postmaster,
> size=411, class=0
> , nrcpts=1, msgid=<200308200913.h7K9D2q27815@ >, relay=root@loca
> lhost
> Aug 20 10:13:02 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Notified postmaster about 1
> infections
> Aug 20 10:13:02 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Commercial disinfector f-prot
> returned 768
> Aug 20 10:13:03 mailhost mailscanner[27374]: Found 1 viruses in messages
> h7K9CWI27778
>
>
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When you updated the "sweep.pl" you have to restart mailscanner.  Since it 
runs as a "daemon", it reads everything it needs (or thinks it does) in when 
it starts, but then restarts itself every so often just to make sure no 
buffers, etc have gotten corrupted.

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Larry Smith
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