MailScanner not behaving - endless loop?

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Robert,

I've not used Debian 'stale' before - does sendmail run as user root:root or
as another user/group - if it does run as a non-root user, have you changed
the MailScanner.conf settings for 'Run As User' and 'Run As Group'??

I'm taking a wild guess that sendmail is running as a non-root user which
has it's home directory set to /var/spool and that it doesn't have
permission to write to /var/spool.

If this is the case - you could add 'bayes_path /etc/MailScanner/bayes' and
'bayes_file_mode 0660' to spam.assassin.prefs.conf and create the
/etc/MailScanner/bayes directory with permissions that the user can write to
correctly.

Like I said - just a wild guess, but it may help you pinpoint the problem.

Kind regards,
Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Waldner [mailto:waldner at WALDNER.PRIV.AT]
Sent: 20 November 2003 14:08
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner not behaving - endless loop?



On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:34:55 +0100, Robert Waldner writes:
>But I'm pretty sure that when I leave it running without Debug for a
> day, I'll end up with one or two hanging, CPU-munching processes again.

Bingo.

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
19011 root      14   0 30792 3348  3320 R    94.0  2.3 100:55 MailScanner

Although this process tried to create $bayes_path/bayes.lock, in a tight
 loop seemingly.

link("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ka.27626",
"/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
stat64("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ka.27626", {st_dev=makedev(3,
8), st_ino=2856390, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=8,
st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=64, st_size=18, st_atime=2003/11/20-15:02:47,
st_mtime=2003/11/20-15:02:48, st_ctime=2003/11/20-15:02:48}) = 0
stat64("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock", {st_dev=makedev(3, 8),
st_ino=2856386, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=8,
st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=9, st_atime=2003/11/20-14:56:34,
st_mtime=2003/11/20-14:56:34, st_ctime=2003/11/20-14:56:34}) = 0 select(0,
NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 337297}) = 0 (Timeout)
write(8, "ka.27626\n", 9)               = 9
link("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ka.27626",
"/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
stat64("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ka.27626", {st_dev=makedev(3,
8), st_ino=2856390, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=8,
st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=64, st_size=27, st_atime=2003/11/20-15:02:47,
st_mtime=2003/11/20-15:02:50, st_ctime=2003/11/20-15:02:50}) = 0
stat64("/var/spool/.spamassassin/bayes.lock", {st_dev=makedev(3, 8),
st_ino=2856386, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=8,
st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=9, st_atime=2003/11/20-14:56:34,
st_mtime=2003/11/20-14:56:34, st_ctime=2003/11/20-14:56:34}) = 0

Any idea what could be causing this?

cheers,
&rw
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