Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner and Sendmail "conflicting"

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Pizza Box manager wrote:

> Hello to all,
> I have installed MailScanner (wonderful tool) on our RAQ 550, it does a
> very good job there too, but unlike on a standard Linux server, I have
> problems with Sendmail restarting on its own and hence preventing
> Mailscanner from working.
> I very often find Sendmail to have restarted on its own, and the messages
> are not scanned anymore.
> I know and use all the command line requests to be issued so that it goes
> back to normal, but does anybody know how to prevent this on a RAQ ? (Tried
> on a RAQ4 and the same happens, I guess because adding a pop account
> through the GUI makes sendmail restart and hence override Mailscanner ?)

Tip from Brian at nuonce.net, copy Mailscanner to Sendmail in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/

Save your sendmail init script first!

That way when the GUI restarts sendmail, it is really restarting
Mailscanner

Gerald
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