Unusual error message from MailScanner

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 14:15:02 IST 2003


Upgrade to 4.23-11 and this problem will disappear.

At 13:46 05/09/2003, you wrote:
>I'm getting an unusual error message in my maillog from MailScanner.
>
>Sep  5 08:33:12 barney MailScanner[17513]: Commercial virus checker
>failed with real error: Modification of a read-only value attempted at
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm line 103, <GEN6491> line 1.
>
>If I scan backward and find the preceding messages for pid  17513 I
>find.
>
>Sep  5 08:33:10 barney MailScanner[17513]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Sep  5 08:33:10 barney MailScanner[17513]:
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/17513/h84KAwCg01142
>5/%nTips.bat  Infection: W32/Klez.H at mm
>Sep  5 08:33:10 barney MailScanner[17513]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found
>virus W32/Klez.H at mm
>Sep  5 08:33:10 barney MailScanner[17513]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found
>1 infections
>
>This is just one example.  There are hundreds of them.  I looked at
>yesterdays log and there were some there too.  I'm not sure how long
>this has been going on.  Other than the message things seem to be
>running fine.  Is this something to worry about?  I'm running...
>
>RedHat 7.3
>mailscanner-4.22-5
>spamassassin 2.55
>f-prot 4.2.0, Mcafee 4.24.0, ClamAV-0.60
>
>I'm also running incomming mounted on tmpfs.
>
>--
>Richard Lynch <rich at mail.wvnet.edu>

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