MailScanner 4.12-2 / 4.13-3 incoming failed

[Peter Nitschke]

Might get more interesting with RH-9 due out starting next week.

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On 26/03/2003 at 10:36 PM Julian Field wrote:

>Really helps when vendors/distributors do nice things like that :-(
>Attached are new versions of
>         /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner
>         /usr/sbin/check_mailscanner
>
>This now makes it impossible to make it work perfectly on all versions of
>RedHat Linux. It can now no longer tell the difference between the
outgoing
>sendmail process in glibc 2.2 and the incoming sendmail process in glibc
>2.3 as they both produce the same output. Also the incoming and outgoing
>sendmail processes in glibc 2.3 produce exactly the same ps output, making
>it impossible to differentiate between the 2.
>
>So it's about as good as I can get it, but it will tend to be a bit
>optimistic when doing a "status".
>
>At 22:11 26/03/2003, you 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.
>>
>>I blame it on the glibc upgrade and had to modify a bunch of scripts.
>>
>>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:
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>>
>>- --
>>Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely
>>Stijn Jonker <SJCJonker at sjc.nl>
>>
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