Re: [cobalt-users] Outgoing Sendmail: Error

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 13:13, Richard Donahue wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Outgoing Sendmail: Error
>
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:52, Richard Donahue wrote:
> > > I just happened to check the status of mailscanner and got an error on
> > > outgoing sendmail. When I stopped and started mailscanner I started
>
> getting
>
> > > a lot of old messages and I noticed in the mail log that other users on
>
> my
>
> > > system are getting some old, very old, messages. Some of the delays
> > > show 30+. I thought mailscanner restarted it'self to avoid things like
> > > this.
>
> I
>
> > > guess I misunderstood. What exactly does the outgoing error mean and
> > > why has the server seemed to be sending and receiving mail fine up
> > > until
>
> now?
>
> > Rich,
> >
> >   If your server still has "separate" scripts for sendmail and
>
> mailscanner,
>
> > often the system will restart sendmail - by the native script - which
> > will leave anything currently in the mailscanner queue(s) "hung" with no
> > processing.  Most of us save the sendmail script
>
> (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail)
>
> > as some other name (sendmail.org) then copy the mailscanner script over
> > it (cp mailscanner sendmail) so that when the system or whatever does
>
> "sendmail"
>
> > it will do it "correctly"...
> >
> > --
> > Larry Smith
> > SysAd ECSIS.NET
> > sysad@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks Larry. If I do that, will sendmail still stop and start correctly
> using the Cobalt Admin GUI?
>

Yes, it will just stop and start sendmail and mailscanner at the same time 
(which once mailscanner is installed is the "more" correct way to do it).

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad@xxxxxxxxx