SpamSnake - missing /var/run/MailScanner/

[mrtero]

I seem to have some trouble with finding a folder that keeps coming up if some logs.

The following log is from /var/log/messages

tail -f /var/log/messages

Jun 12 10:18:19 postrens1 MailScanner: Cannot write pid file /var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid, No such file or directory
Jun 12 10:18:19 postrens1 MailScanner: MailScanner setting GID to www-data (33)
Jun 12 10:18:19 postrens1 MailScanner: MailScanner setting UID to postfix (110)
Jun 12 10:18:20 postrens1 MailScanner: Cannot write pid file /var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid, No such file or directory
Jun 12 10:40:26 postrens1 MailScanner: Cannot write pid file /var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid, No such file or directory
Jun 12 10:40:26 postrens1 MailScanner: MailScanner setting GID to www-data (33)
Jun 12 10:40:26 postrens1 MailScanner: MailScanner setting UID to postfix (110)
Jun 12 10:40:27 postrens1 MailScanner: Cannot write pid file /var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid, No such file or directory

This error accrue every time I restart the Mailscanner service

/etc/init.d/mailscanner restart

Anything I need to look into? or is there a way to remove this error/warning?

Any help would be much appreciated

[falko]

Try this:

mkdir /var/run/MailScanner
chmod 777 /var/run/MailScanner

[mrtero]

So i guess the folder has no other purpose than to hold the pid file then?

Thanks for the reply

[Edit]
Tryd it btw, and worked like a charm

[mrtero]

Huuum .. got a strange thing going on here.

It seems that the error messages return every time I reboot the server :-/

Any clue?

[falko]

What's the output of

ls -la /var/run/

after a reboot?

[mrtero]

root@postrens1:~# ls -la /var/run/
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 12 root       root        480 2009-06-15 14:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root       root       4096 2009-06-09 14:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root         40 2009-06-15 14:52 apache2
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 apache2.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 atd.pid
drwxr-xr-x  3 root       root         60 2009-06-15 14:52 bind
drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav     clamav      100 2009-06-15 14:52 clamav
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 console-kit-daemon.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 crond.pid
----------  1 root       root          0 2009-06-15 14:52 crond.reboot
drwxr-xr-x  2 messagebus messagebus   80 2009-06-15 14:52 dbus
drwxr-xr-x  2 dcc        dcc          40 2009-06-15 14:52 dcc
drwxr-xr-x  2 klog       klog        100 2009-06-15 14:52 klogd
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          0 2009-06-15 14:53 mailq.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root        433 2009-06-15 14:52 motd
drwxr-xr-x  2 mysql      root         80 2009-06-15 14:52 mysqld
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root         60 2009-06-15 14:52 network
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          4 2009-06-15 14:52 ntpd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          2 2009-06-15 14:52 sendsigs.omit
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root         40 2009-06-15 14:52 sendsigs.omit.d
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root         40 2009-06-15 14:52 sshd
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 sshd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root          5 2009-06-15 14:52 syslogd.pid
-rw-rw-r--  1 root       utmp       3456 2009-06-15 14:52 utmp
root@postrens1:~#

[mrtero]

I guess i have overlooked something in the guide that might help,

- http://howtoforge.org/the-perfect-sp...ubuntu-8.04-p5

9.17 Fix for Ubuntu 8.04 (kept removing directories upon reboot)
Edit /etc/rc.local and add the following before the exit line:

mkdir /var/run/MailScanner
mkdir /var/lock/subsys
mkdir /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
chown -R postfix:www-data /var/run/MailScanner
chown -R postfix:www-data /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/mailscanner restart

The reason I didn't even think to read this, is that its all strikethrough.