From: Dirk Kleinhesselink (dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 11:54:51 EDT
I finally got MailScanner working with sophos antivirus on Tru64 5.1A.
The problem was that the Perl module file, Sys::Syslog.pm that is in the
perl 5.6.0 distribution shipped with 5.1A, at least, is broken. I was
able to get MailScanner going by changing the calls to the syslog utility
from 'unix' to 'inet'. I probably could've also fixed by upgrading to a
newer perl release. My fix was to modify the MailScanner perl library
module, Log.pm (/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm) and change the
line:
eval { Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix'); } # This may fail!
to:
eval { Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('inet'); } # This may fail!
I had responses from Nikola Milutinovic, who advised the use of AMaVisD,
instead of MailScanner -- uses less system resources than MailScanner and
also Sophie as a free alternative to the commercial Sophos.
Also Richard Mollel who is using MailScanner on 4.0g with Perl 5.8.
I'm using Tru64 5.1A and MailScanner 4.21-9.
Dirk Kleinhesselink
> Is anybody successfully running MailScanner ? I have a tru64 5.1A cluster
> running sendmail-8.11.6 (patched) and I'd like to use MailScanner to pass
> mail through Sophos. I've installed MailScanner (version 4.21-9) and
> sophos according to directions. Sophos seems to be working OK if I run
> sweep against a directory, so I believe it to be installed OK. However,
> when I start MailScanner, it seems to start OK and does not give me any
> error messages, yet it never seems to process anything from the incoming
> mail queue, nor can I find any informational messages from it -- I just
> see one or two mailscanner processes and that's it. I tried to turn on
> debugging by setting debug = yes in the MailScanner.conf file and then I
> got this when I tried to run it:
>
> # ./check_mailscanner
> Starting MailScanner...
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> Your vendor has not defined the Sys::Syslog macro _PATH_LOG at
> /usr/lib/perl-5.6.0/lib/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf/Sys/Syslog.pm line 277.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Dirk Kleinhesselink
>
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