sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade

[Julian Field]

At 19:49 23/01/2003, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, after applying the patch, I'm still getting the error:
>
>sendmail[30488]: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad file
>descriptor

Does it still produce the errors about stdin and stdout as well?

>This is on an OpenBSD 3.2 box.  I rebooted the machine beforehand, and still
>got the error when I sent a message.  Then I killed MailScanner and sent a
>message, without getting an error (so it goes into mqueue.in without
>problems).  When I restarted MailScanner, I got the error shortly thereafter
>(probably when it transfers the mail back to sendmail to send out).  I
>haven't had a problem with mail being modified or deleted (except when it is
>supposed to, i.e. bad attachment filename), so the message is more of an
>annoyance than anything else.  Still, it would be nice to get rid of it.
>
>Jeremy Evans
>Information Systems Analyst
>California State Auditor
>916-445-0255 phone
>916-322-7801 fax
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:21 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: sendmail 8.12.7 squawking after MS 4.11-1 upgrade
>
>
>Oops, you're right of course.
>Must remember not to code with one hand while drinking wine with the other
>:-)
>Revised patch is below...
>
>At 19:12 23/01/2003, you wrote:
> >Shouldn't:
> >
> >+  $io0->fdopen(fileno(STDIN), "r"));
> >+  $io1->fdopen(fileno(STDOUT),"w"));
> >+  $io2->fdopen(fileno(STDERR),"w"));
> >
> >be:
> >
> >+  $io0->fdopen(fileno(STDIN), "r");
> >+  $io1->fdopen(fileno(STDOUT),"w");
> >+  $io2->fdopen(fileno(STDERR),"w");
> >
> >in the patch?
>
>Revised patch is
>
>--- /usr/sbin/MailScanner      Sun Jan 19 12:39:20 2003
>+++ MailScanner Thu Jan 23 19:56:35 2003
>@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
>   require 5.005;
>
>   use FileHandle;
>+use IO::Handle;
>   use MailScanner::Config;
>   use MailScanner::CustomConfig;
>   use MailScanner::Lock;
>@@ -261,6 +262,16 @@
>   # If we are debugging, then just run once.
>   #
>   sub WorkForHours {
>+  # Re-open the stdin, stdout and stderr file descriptors for
>+  # sendmail's benefit. Should stop it squawking!
>+  my($io0, $io1, $io2);
>+  $io0 = new IO::Handle;
>+  $io1 = new IO::Handle;
>+  $io2 = new IO::Handle;
>+  $io0->fdopen(fileno(STDIN), "r");
>+  $io1->fdopen(fileno(STDOUT),"w");
>+  $io2->fdopen(fileno(STDERR),"w");
>+
>     # Read the configuration file and start logging to syslog/stderr
>     StartLogging($ConfFile);
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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