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
Log on the server where mailchk script has been deployed
cd /usr/local/lib/mailcheck/conf/
mkdir RCS
ci -l mailcheck.conf
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
vi mailcheck.conf
search for word rcmfilter
The line will be of type rcmfilter='/etc/init.d/mfilterd'
Change this line to rcmfilter='/etc/init.d/mfilter'
