advmail warning

[sundown]

Hi all

i had to do a complete rebuild on the mail server so after reading through the forums it seamed like the easest way was to tar the /var/opt/scalix directory.

I have put a clean copy of fedora 4 on the box, install scalix and untar'ed the backup.
The problem i now have is when i start the scalix services i get a message saying

omon : [OM 10431] warning: the advmail monitor program, (advmail.sckd) is not running. This program must be running if PC users want to connect to scalix using Sockets.

I can log into the sac and it works display all the users and the mailbox size, but i cannot get the mail using webmail.

Any ideas would be appriciated, also sorry if this has been answered else where but i couldnt find it

Thanks

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Tim,

Can you post the output from "onstat -a" and "omstat -s"? After untarring the /var/opt/scalix directory, did you run "omcheck" (see the man pages for details) to verify that the ownerships and permissions are correct?

Thanks,
Rachel

[sundown]

Hi Rachel

sorry i could find anything on omcheck, so i ran omcheck -i and found
Filename: /var/opt/scalix/sys/general.cfg ( OpenMail OM-CORE )
Mode is 664 (-rw-rw-r--) should be 444 (-r--r--r--)
this has now been changed. also these below
# Filename: /var/opt/scalix/user/g000038/000003v.1 ( OpenMail OM-USERGFILES )
# Mode is 664 (-rw-rw-r--) should be 660 (-rw-rw----)
chmod 660 /var/opt/scalix/user/g000038/000003v.1
# Uid is 0 (root) should be 101 (scalix)
chown scalix /var/opt/scalix/user/g000038/000003v.1
# Filename: /var/opt/scalix/user/g000039/000003v.1 ( OpenMail OM-USERGFILES )
# Mode is 664 (-rw-rw-r--) should be 660 (-rw-rw----)
chmod 660 /var/opt/scalix/user/g000039/000003v.1
# Uid is 0 (root) should be 101 (scalix)
chown scalix /var/opt/scalix/user/g000039/000003v.1
# Filename: /var/opt/scalix/user/g000037/000003v.1 ( OpenMail OM-USERGFILES )
# Mode is 664 (-rw-rw-r--) should be 660 (-rw-rw----)
chmod 660 /var/opt/scalix/user/g000037/000003v.1
# Uid is 0 (root) should be 101 (scalix)
chown scalix /var/opt/scalix/user/g000037/000003v.1
# Filename: /var/opt/scalix/user/g000035/000003v.1 ( OpenMail OM-USERGFILES )
# Mode is 664 (-rw-rw-r--) should be 660 (-rw-rw----)
chmod 660 /var/opt/scalix/user/g000035/000003v.1
# Uid is 0 (root) should be 101 (scalix)
chown scalix /var/opt/scalix/user/g000035/000003v.1

These have now been changed as well.
I restarted scalix and it still gives the same error

omstat -a give the following:
PC Monitor Aborted NON-STOP 0
Directory Relay Server Aborted 22:40:26
Notification Server Started 22:40:26 0
Shared memory daemon Started NON-STOP
Notification Monitor Started NON-STOP
Session Monitor Started NON-STOP
Container Access Monitor Started NON-STOP
Item Structure Server Stopped
Database Monitor Started 22:40:26
Licence Monitor Daemon Started NON-STOP
LDAP Daemon Aborted 22:40:26
Queue Manager Started NON-STOP
Item Delete Daemon Started NON-STOP
IMAP Server Daemon Aborted 22:40:26
SMTP Relay Partially Abor 22:40:26
Mime Browser Controller Started 22:40:26

omstat -s gives:
Service Router Started 22:40:26 0
Local Delivery Started 22:40:26 0
Internet Mail Gateway Started 22:40:27 0
Local Client Interface Enabled 22:40:27 0
Remote Client Interface Enabled 22:40:27 0
Test Server Started 22:40:27 0
Request Server Started 22:40:27 0
Print Server Started 22:40:27 0
Bulletin Board Server Started 22:40:27 0
Background Search Service Started 22:40:27 0
CDA Server Started 22:40:27 0
POP3 interface Aborted 22:40:27 0
Omscan Server Started 22:40:27 0
Archiver Started 22:40:27 0

Hope this helps

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Tim,

Did you run omcheck with the -i -s parameters and redirect it to a script file, then run the script? In other words:

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omcheck -d -s > fixit.sh
sh ./fixit.sh


Once you did that, did you restart your Scalix server with:

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omshut
omrc


Thanks,
Rachel

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Tim,

Did you setup this server with the same name as your previous server? Did you configure the network settings the same?

Thanks,
Rachel

[sundown]

Hi Rachel

Yes i did run the
omcheck -d -s > fixit.sh
sh ./fixit.sh
and all the errors on that are fix.

The Server name stayed the same:
sunbuzz.co.uk

Thanks

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

From what I can see, the daemons that have the problem are those that need to bind to a port. This would indicate a networking problem.

Can you check that /opt/scalix/global/config contains the fully-qualified name for the the server and that it can be correctly resolved.

This also includes checking that /etc/hosts is formatted correctly.

Cheers

Dave

[sundown]

Hi all,

The fqdn is correct in /opt/scalix/global/config
and /etc/hosts file looks correct to me. see below
192.168.50.230 sunbuzz.co.uk sunbuzz
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

As all this looks good im wondering if we can go about this a different way, there are only two users that need there mail restoring.
I can removing scalix, and installing it again. But is there any way of restoring just the two mailboxes with out screwing up the server setup

Any ideas welcome on this.

Thanks

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

Can you check the fatal log in /var/opt/scalix/logs ?

Cheers

Dave

[thatitguy]

This is probably caused be either what the original reply indicated (network misconfiguration) or the hateful RH firewall default packet filtering stupidity that makes things creatively fail for no good reason

Disabling the firewall (we write our own rules when we're good adn ready) resolved the advmail issue here.