MailScanner continously respawns without processing

[Julian Field]

At 19:19 14/02/2003, you wrote:
>debugged the code down to a chdir command in Sendmail.pm line 740.  It seems
>to lock up w/ no error messages or graceful dieing.

Currently the chdir in line 740 is wrapped with a warning message to the
log, so I assume I must have fixed this one already.

>   The paths that it is
>trying to change to exist.  I can su - mailscanneruser and switch to the
>directories just fine so permissions seem fine.  I also wrote a mini setuid
>script which, dropped to our mailscanneruser and changed to the directory
>line 740 was having problems with, and that worked as well.  If we run
>mailscanner as root, it works fine.  If your problem is similar, maybe try
>running as root just to see?  I'm thinking we might have a buggy setuid
>perl....?
>
>More info:
>The servers that did work were RH8.0 whereas the server that did not was 7.3
>RH7.3 box has perl 5.6.1
>RH8.0 boxes have perl 5.8.0
>
>Curious to what you find,
>Lindsay
>
>On Friday 14 February 2003 12:06, you wrote:
> > Hi all--
> >
> > I have a new installation of MailScanner 4.12-2, Exim 4.12, Kaspersky
> > and SpamAssassin. At this point I am just trying to troubleshoot
> > MailScanner itself (from queue to queue) since Exim does accept a new
> > message and drop it in the incoming queue.
> >
> > I installed MailScanner using the tar distribution. I manually installed
> > all of the required Perl modules with the recommended versions and
> > patches.
> >
> > My main problem is I've been unable to get any troubleshooting logs out
> > of MailScanner itself. I get almost nothing in syslog (syslogd -r -m 0)
> > and when run in with Debug I get the same log entries as otherwise:
> >
> > Feb 14 11:01:12 granite MailScanner[20449]: MailScanner
> > Feb 14 11:01:12 granite MailScanner[20449]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
> > Feb 14 11:01:22 granite MailScanner[20507]: MailScanner
> > Feb 14 11:01:22 granite MailScanner[20507]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
> > Feb 14 11:18:40 granite MailScanner[27699]: MailScanner
> > Feb 14 11:18:40 granite MailScanner[27699]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
> > Feb 14 11:18:50 granite MailScanner[27748]: MailScanner
> > Feb 14 11:18:50 granite MailScanner[27748]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
> > Feb 14 11:19:00 granite MailScanner[27827]: MailScanner
> > Feb 14 11:19:00 granite MailScanner[27827]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
> >
> > It appears MailScanner is repeatedly trying to initialize itself but
> > never succeeds. This continues until I kill the MailScanner process. I
> > never have more than one MailScanner process running (there's usually a
> > <defunct> one lurking too).
> >
> > MailScanner does change to the exim UID/GID and I've made sure
> > /opt/MailScanner/var is writable by that UID--the only time I caught an
> > error message in syslog was when it wasn't.
> >
> > I am using Red Hat Linux 7.2.
> >
> > Is it possible to turn on more verbose logging? I just have so little to
> > troubleshoot with.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Thank you!
> >
> > Paul

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Julian Field
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