sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade

[Julian Field]

At 16:49 02/01/2003, you wrote:
>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

How about you just turn off AutoRebuildAliases? Quick and simple solution
to the problem, though I haven't a clue what might be causing it. Your
clock hasn't skewed has it?


>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?
> >
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