Problem with postfix and virus configuration ...

Good day,

hope to find some helping hands here.

I got the problem that I would like to run virus scanner for postfix! OK.

My problem is that the couldn't start! And all mails would hang in the quee
befor. That my problem. I don't know how to sove this.

If I start amavis on my SuSE 9.0 system I got this messages...

Starting virus-scanner (amavisd-new):..done
Starting amavis-milter:..failed

and the message.log told me ...

Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to bind to
port local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock: Address already in use
Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to create
listening socket on conn local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock


But the file amavis-milter exsist and owner and group lookes for me good.

What is wrong with my config of postfix?

Thanx for any help

bye

Markus

Hi Markus

Markus Borowy wrote:

> If I start amavis on my SuSE 9.0 system I got this messages...
>
> Starting virus-scanner (amavisd-new):..done
> Starting amavis-milter:..failed
>
> and the message.log told me ...
>
> Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to bind to
> port local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock: Address already in use
> Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to create
> listening socket on conn local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock

> What is wrong with my config of postfix?

amavis-milter is fo sendmail. You have to configure you amavis to use SMTP.
This should be documented in your amavis.conf.

hth
Greetings,
Gregor

Hi Gregor,

thanks for your quick response.

Today I had not to much luck with the system! I can't understud way my
system wound like to run with the amavis? I took away this stuf and every
works fine. I checked the amavis with the telnet and it looks to me fine.
But if I tried to get this two things work together ... No chance for me.
You can finde a lot of howto's om the net for this. But my system woldn't
like this anyway. So maybe you got a final hint for me to solve this.

Do you know somewhere to start for a proper system. I cut of the two systems
postfix and amavis inside the main.cfg content_filter='' and the master.cf
where I put away the line they start with smtp-amavis ... and
localhost:10025... So it shuld be easy to go back to the last statusquo.

Can you give me a hand for this. I would be glade if the system is going
save and I can learn something from you in this case.

Bye

Markus

Gregor Hermens wrote:

> Hi Markus
>
> Markus Borowy wrote:
>
>> If I start amavis on my SuSE 9.0 system I got this messages...
>>
>> Starting virus-scanner (amavisd-new):..done
>> Starting amavis-milter:..failed
>>
>> and the message.log told me ...
>>
>> Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to bind to
>> port local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock: Address already in use
>> Dec 10 16:46:14 Gandalf amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to create
>> listening socket on conn local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock
>
>> What is wrong with my config of postfix?
>
> amavis-milter is fo sendmail. You have to configure you amavis to use
> SMTP. This should be documented in your amavis.conf.
>
> hth
> Greetings,
> Gregor