Re: [cobalt-users] MailScanner error - MailScanner.pid file not found

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:36 AM 12/17/2003 -0700, you wrote:

> I've upgraded my MailScanner program to 4.25-11 on a Cobalt Raq4 
> server.  When I start MailScanner, I receive an error in the maillog that 
> the program could not find the file /var/run/MailScanner.pid.
>
> I created the file manually, but every time the service is restarted, the 
> file gets deleted by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner file.  How does the 
> MailScanner.pid file get created?  For some reason the file is not being 
> created when the service is started.
>
> Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Thank you!

Hi Tad,

What version of MailScanner did you upgrade from? Look at your 
/var/log/maillog and determine if there are any sendmail/MailScanner 
complaints about /var/spool/* or /home spool/*.

Cheers