mailchk bug

Submitted by saurabh on Mon, 2006-09-18 15:22

There had been a problem eariler at AZB wherein the mailchk script deployed at mumbai location had tried to restart mfilter i.e. stop it and start it again.
Mfilter was stopped but it could not be started

Mfilter is killed by mailchk executing command

     kill -9 /etc/init.d/mfilter

and started by mailchk executing command

  
     $rcmfilter start.

The value of this variable $rcmfilter is "/etc/init.d/mfilterd" instead of "/etc/init.d/mfilter" and hence mfilter was killed but could not be started.
The fix for the same has to be deployed across all locations on which mailchk was put up.
HOW TO FIX THIS
1. Log on the server where mailchk script has been deployed
2. cd /usr/local/lib/mailcheck/conf/
3. mkdir RCS
4. ci -l mailcheck.conf
5. Please remember that you have already taken a backup of the configuration file so that we can revert back to it when the need arises. For your information, a file checked into RCS is checked out by
  co -l
6. vi mailcheck.conf
7. search for word rcmfilter
8. The line will be of type
  rcmfilter='/etc/init.d/mfilterd'
9. Change this line to
  rcmfilter='/etc/init.d/mfilter'
10. Save and quit.

Merce