sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade

[Gavin Nelmes-Crocker]

I've also noticed something odd with sendmail when I installed 4.11 on a
test box it keeps rebuilding the aliases after every message

Jan  3 08:13:13 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
messages
Jan  3 08:13:13 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Spam Actions: message
g03GDC803162 actions are deliver
Jan  3 08:13:13 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Jan  3 08:13:14 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Filename Checks: Allowing
g03GDC803162.header (no rule matched)
Jan  3 08:13:14 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Filename Checks: Allowing
msg-2997-1.txt
Jan  3 08:13:14 localhost MailScanner[2997]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages
Jan  3 16:13:14 localhost sendmail[3168]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases
autorebuilt by root
Jan  3 16:13:14 localhost sendmail[3168]: /etc/mail/aliases: 17 aliases,
longest 10 bytes, 189 bytes total
Jan  3 16:13:14 localhost sendmail[3168]: alias database
/etc/mail/aliases.majordomo autorebuilt by root
Jan  3 16:13:14 localhost sendmail[3168]: /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo: 12
aliases, longest 69 bytes, 519 bytes total

this is a RaQ4 if that helps

Gavin
ps Julian thanks for your help on the MakeMaker and perl rpm stuff I've
built fixed rpms for the RaQs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 02 January 2003 16:32
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade
>
>
> Gang,
>    I upgraded from Mailscanner 4.10-1 to 4.11-1 this morning.
> Afterwords, sendmail 8.12.7 starting complaining:
>
> [ID 702911 mail.warning] File descriptors
>     missing on startup: stderr; Bad file number
>
> I've seen a pile 'o these this morning.  I dropped back to 4.10-1
> and sendmail shut up.  I upgraded from 8.12.6 to 8.12.7 on Dec 31,
> so this may be a new feature/bug of sendmail.  The complaint above
> comes out of sendmail's main() routine.  A quick look at the
> sendmail code, and it looks like sendmail is checking that the stdio
> file descriptors are available, and complains if not.  Maybe stderr
> is closed/gone in MS when a sendmail process gets launched in 4.11-1?
>
> -----------------------------------
> Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
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> Information Technology Services
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