MailScanner 4.12-2 / 4.13-3 incoming failed

[Craig Pratt]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:11  PM, Stijn Jonker wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> I have seen this problem with diffrent scripts and programs on my
> system.
> If you are all running redhat, the following has happend afaik.
>
> Redhat silently upgraded glibc from 2.2.X to 2.3.X while incorporating
> the
> latest sun rpc fix. (The reason for the upgrade iirc)
>
> Now some (if not most processes) show up as:
> 773 ?        S      0:00 [sendmail]
> 782 ?        S      0:00 [sendmail]
> when doing a ps -ax or ps -eaf.

Funny. I've put all the updates on my RH 7.2 system and don't see what
you're describing - at least for the sendmail process:

[craig at orange craig]$ rpm -q glibc sendmail samba kernel
glibc-2.2.4-32
sendmail-8.11.6-23.72
samba-2.2.7a-1
kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x
[craig at orange craig]$ ps -ax | fgrep sendmail
  3219 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
  3224 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
  6877 pts/0    S      0:00 fgrep sendmail

> I blame it on the glibc upgrade and had to modify a bunch of scripts.

Have you upgraded your kernel for the strace() problem? I'd be more
suspicious of a kernel upgrade causing this kind of thing.

Craig

>
> I don't know what the exact meaning is if a process is in between []
> brackets. Couldn't find it that quick. I had to "repair" a lot of
> monitoring and reporting tools and I don't have time to make ps do the
> right thing again.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Stijn.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Bruce Rahn wrote:
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>> Allow me to add a more detailed observation in addition to my first
>> posting
>> of "seeing the same problem here".
>>
>> First off, this discrepancy started after the last kernel/glibc
>> updates.
>> Everything was fine before that.  I too was bitten by the sendmail
>> 'auto
>> start' issue when I upgraded, but that one was quick and easy to
>> track down.
>>
>> Now two more tid-bits.  While it indicates failed, it indeed is
>> running
>> after a MailScanner start up and stops after a MailScanner stop.  So
>> why the
>> error that it failed?  It indeed works.
>>
>> Also, after the kernel/glibc update, the MailScanner-MRTG graph of
>> Copies Of
>> Sendmail went from showing two down to showing zero.  If I were
>> smarter, I'm
>> sure this is a clue.
>>
>> It's not a show stopper, just leaves one with a false impression that
>> things
>> are not working when indeed they are.
>>
>> Regards -- Bruce
>>
>> Bruce Rahn
>>
>> brahn at woh.rr.com
>>
>> Wisdom has two parts:
>> 1.  having a lot to say; and
>> 2.  not saying it!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>> Behalf Of Julian Field
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:10 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner 4.12-2 / 4.13-3 incoming failed
>>
>>
>> At 18:56 26/03/2003, you wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I'm having this problem that when I run 'service MailScanner
>>> status' the
>>> output displays the following error:
>>>
>>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>>>          incoming sendmail: [FAILED]
>>>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>>
>>>  I've verified mail is working both in and out bound correctly, so I
>>> don't know why the error.
>>>
>>>  I have RedHatV8.0, and I just upgrade today to MailScanner 4.13-3.
>>> I
>>> also had the problem with MailScanner V4.12-2.  I never notice the
>>> problem before until I upgraded the kernel and glib rpms last week
>>> for
>>> security reasons.
>>>
>>>  Has anyone else seen this problem yet?
>>
>> The sendmail replacement RPM issued by RedHat Network does a
>>          service sendmail restart
>> which re-runs sendmail :-(
>> I stopped it doing it in future by adding intentional syntax errors to
>>          /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
>> (I added a load of text on the end explaining what I had done, which
>> of
>> course generates load of sh syntax errors)
>>
>> --
>> Julian Field
>> www.MailScanner.info
>> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
>> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>>
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> Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely
> Stijn Jonker <SJCJonker at sjc.nl>
>
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Craig Pratt
Strongbox Network Services Inc.
mailto:craig at strong-box.net


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