sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade

[Julian Field]

At 20:31 22/01/2003, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Was there ever a definitive solution to this problem?
>
>I am running MailScanner-4.05-3 on a Tru64 system with sendmail 8.12.6, and I
>see the error. For example:
>
>sendmail[176424]: File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr; Bad
>file number

In the main MailScanner script, there are 3 calls to close(). If you
comment them out, does it fix the problem?


>If, as someone suggested, there is a "leak" of file descriptors, then that is
>what should be fixed.
>
>Stephen Campbell
>Network Services
>Dartmouth College
>6223 Berry-Baker Library
>Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
>US
>
> > At 16:31 02/01/2003, you wrote:
> > >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?
> >
> > MS 4.11 does indeed close all the stdout, stdin stderr. This means that the
> > forking off the daemon works properly, so you can close an SSH session that
> > started MailScanner.
> >
> > If you look in /usr/sbin/MailScanner, you will find 3 consecutive "close("
> > function calls. Try commenting them out and see what happens. I might need
> > to add some code attempt to re-open them later, but I'm not 100% sure how
> > to do that yet. :-)
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
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