misc mailscanner questions. startup script related.

[Kris Stumpner]

We figured out today why my mailscanner stop script was failing to kill my
mailscanner processes.  The latest 4.00a9-7.tar has 'perl -I$virusdir -T
$process $config' as the startup command in check_mailscanner.linux.  Now,
this causes the 'killproc mailscanner' in the mailscanner startup script to
not kill the processes.  (Mike changed this to 'killproc perl' earlier
today, and while this successfully killed the mailscanner process, it also
kill other perl services running on the box.  webmin, etc.)

Now, I changed the 'perl -I$virusdir -T $process $config' in
check_mailscanner.linux to '$process $config' as it was in 4.00a7, and
changed to mailscanner startup script back to 'killproc mailscanner' and
this all seems to work properly again.

I made some modifications to my mailscanner startup script to make it a
little more easily configurable, with some default setting in it for the tar
release.  All the options are working for me again. (I also noticed that the
pid files in the PIDDIR were not being deleted.  This script now deletes
them.  My system did not like the [ -f /opt/MailScanner/var/* ] statement)

I have put both of the files that I have modified up at:
        http://www.acknak.org/mailscanner (startup script, /etc/init.d/mailscanner
on redhat)
        http://www.acknak.org/check_mailscanner.linux
(/opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner.linux in tar release)

Hope this helps any of you that may be having similar occurances.

Kris

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Kris Stumpner
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:37 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] NDPM_File.pm / Locked message ?


bingo.  That fixed the problems.  SpamAssassin works again (it was dying
before) with no more errors/warnings.

I managed to pull the new mailscanner script out of the redhat rpm, now to
hack it up to make it work.  (very brief changing got it to start up
mailscanner fine.  Shutting down mailscanner is still not working, and I get
a './mailscanner: [: too many arguments' error, but I'll work on that for a
bit and see if I can't come up with something.)

Another thing that I have noticed between the tar release and the RPM
release.  The majority of the filenames in the tar version are mailscanner
(lowercase), whereas the filenames in the rpm release is MailScanner.  Not
that I figure many people will be hopping back and forth between tar and rpm
release, but I was just wondering if this was intentional.

Thanks again,

Kris

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:35 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] NDPM_File.pm / Locked message ?


At 16:56 07/10/2002, you wrote:
>(The whole setup
>is acting flakey, but that's where the problems is RIGHT now)

:-(

>   The
>NDBM_File.pm error comes up as spamassassin starts. (And every once in a
>while after that)

It appears to be a problem with me doing a "require" versus a "use" on the
SpamAssassin code where it sets up talking to the database file Perl code.

I have added a line to the top of my SpamAssassin code to force it to load
the database file code earlier. This appears to keep SpamAssassin quiet and
gets rid of this warning.

Build 7 is up on the web site with this correction in it.

>I am using the tar distribution on my system.
>Would it be possible to name the tar releases to coincide with the revision
>number like the RPM release is so we can tell if we've got the latest one
>up?

Done.

>Also.  Has the /etc/init.d/mailscanner script changed for v4?  The version
I
>have now (from a 3.2x rpm release) does not kill the daemon processes
>properly (or at all).

Getting this script right across different Linuxes, let alone different
Unixes (Unices if you prefer) is nigh on impossible. The latest one seems
to work pretty well though, give it a try.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:15 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] NDPM_File.pm / Locked message ?
>
>
>At 02:58 07/10/2002, you wrote:
> >I fixed the HTML-Parser.pm error finally, but now I get the following
error
> >when starting mailscanner.
> >
> >"Use of unitialized value in require at
> >/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/NDBM_File.pm line 6."
>
>That is someone else's bug. Not my problem (yet) :-)
>
> >Then I get a 'Locked message' error at my console everytime a new email
> >comes in.
>
>I just searched all my code for that message, and the call to print it is
>commented out in the latest code.
>
> >Any Ideas on this one?
>
>Is it still doing it with newest release?
>Are you using the tar distribution or the RPMs?
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ