SAVI-Perl problems

[Julian Field]

I set en_GB in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to avoid RedHat UTF-8 issues across the
whole system.

At 10:18 29/04/2003, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Further to my eariler posting - this seems like a RH9 issue, if I set
>LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 in /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner this cures the
>problem.
>
>Also - is it still a good idea to set LANG=en_GB in
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner to speed up SpamAssassin under RH8/9 due to the
>UTF-8 issues???
>
>Regards,
>Steve.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Freegard [mailto:steve.freegard at lbsltd.co.uk]
>Sent: 28 April 2003 19:56
>To: MAILSCANNER at jiscmail.ac.uk
>
>Hi All,
>
>I thought I'd give the sophossavi interface a try - after doing so, I was
>tailing the maillog and noticed that MailScanner was spawning a new child
>process every 10-20 seconds or so, and that I had several defunct processes
>showing up when doing a 'ps axww'.
>
>I put MailScanner into debug mode and ran it by hand and realised that it
>was segfaulting.
>
>Here is the last few lines of an strace:
>
>[root at hoshi root]# strace /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.con
>f
><<SNIP>>
>mprotect(0x40618000, 978944, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
>open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 5
>fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=21040, ...}) = 0
>mmap2(NULL, 21040, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0x40428000
>close(5)                                = 0
>futex(0x42130d84, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647, NULL) = 0
>brk(0)                                  = 0x92fa000
>brk(0x92fb000)                          = 0x92fb000
>open("/etc/sav.conf", O_RDONLY)         = 5
>fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49, ...}) = 0
>mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
>0x40
>145000
>read(5, "SAV virus data directory = /usr/"..., 4096) = 49
>read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
>close(5)                                = 0
>munmap(0x40145000, 4096)                = 0
>time(NULL)                              = 1051555427
>open("/tmp/76630000.$$$", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 5
>close(5)                                = 0
>open("/tmp/76630000.$$$", O_RDWR)       = 5
>write(5, "\0", 1)                       = 1
>close(5)                                = 0
>rmdir("/tmp/76630000.$$$")              = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
>unlink("/tmp/76630000.$$$")             = 0
>--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
><<SNIP>>
>
>I confirmed that it is SAVI-Perl causing it by changing back to regular
>sophos scanning which then stops the segfault.
>
>I'm running this on a Compaq Proliant DL360 1x933Mhz 512Mb RAM running
>RedHat 9, MailScanner 4.14-9, Sophos 3.67 and ClamAV 0.54
>
>Anyone else had a similar problem or know how to fix this??
>
>Kind regards,
>
>
>Steve
>
>--
>Steve Freegard
>Systems Manager
>Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
>
>
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