MS not logging in Solaris 9

[Julian Field]

At 04:47 18/11/2003, you wrote:
>Hello Jeff
>
>I am currently running 4.25-8 but have also tried 4.24.5 and if you can
>believe it 1.142.2.51

Version 1? Wow, what are modification dates on the files? (I'm trying to
work out the history of MS).

>  which we still have running on another machine
>(sparc/sol8) and none of the versions do any logging. In 4.25.8 the
>logging errors are now gone however there is still no logging being done.
>
>I'm really starting to think it is a Sol9 problem specifically Sol9 on an
>Intel. I think others are having success with Sol9 on a sparc.

I've got it running on Solaris x86 9, and once I copied in the change from
'unix' to 'stream' then it worked.
Check you syslogd command-line and read 'man syslogd' as there are -t and
-T options which can affect this.


>Rick
>
>On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >    This was an issue that Julian fixed in 4.25-7 and later, since I have
> > Solaris 9 and raised it.  The quick fix for earlier versions is to
> comment out
> > line 67 in lib/MailScanner/Log.pm, the line that says
> "eval...setlogsock..."
> > and restart MS.  Or upgrade to 4.25-8, where Julian has fixed things.
> >
> > --- Jeff Earickson
> >     Colby College
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, MailScanner Mailbox wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:53:12 -0700
> > > From: MailScanner Mailbox <mailscan at PRIS.CA>
> > > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: MS not logging in Solaris 9
> > >
> > > Hello All specifically Peter or other Solaris 9 users
> > >
> > > As well as the other problems I am having (patching Mimetools etc)
> > >
> > > I have downloaded the latest beta of MS in my hopes of getting something
> > > to work. I no longer get the errors while in Debug Mode (Yeah Julian)
> > > however I am not getting any logging at all. Not with the beta version,
> > > the stable version, or the production version I have running on a
> Solaris8
> > > box.
> > >
> > > I do have the following in syslog.conf: mail.debug /var/maillog same
> as on
> > > my production box. I know MailScanner is running as I get a postmaster
> > > message when sending the eicar test virus through.
> > >
> > > So I figured as you are running Solaris 9 perhaps you may have some
> > > insight as to why I have no logging
> > >
> > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Peter Bonivart wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> > > >  > And that would help Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. users how? :-)
> > > >
> > > > I thought I made it clear that I wanted the users of the
> > > > tar-distribution to benefit from the patched module as well as the RPM
> > > > users. As you can see by my signature I'm a Solaris user myself.
> Did you
> > > > check the link I supplied in my e-mail? It's my understanding that RPM
> > > > users don't need that page. It's for the rest of us.
> > > >
> > > >  > You really want to find a solution that works out for all users!
> > > >
> > > > I thought I did. You might want to read my post again.
> > > >
> > > > /Peter Bonivart
> > > >
> > > > --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
> > > >
> > > > Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.23-11,
> > > > SpamAssassin 2.60 + DCC 1.2.9, ClamAV 20030829
> > > >
> > >
> >

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