Upgrade problem

[Chris Connell]

Hello
I was wandering if someone could give me some advice to troubleshoot a
strange problem I had when upgrading mailscanner on solaris9 with gcc.

I upgraded 4.25-14 to 4.6-2. I installed the extra Archive-Zip-1.09 and
Compress-Zlib-1.33 perl modules required.  These installed ok except
Compress Zlib.pm and auto installed in
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris so I had to copy it to ../
for mailscanner to read it (as it looks in the lib directory below).

I noticed something strange after the upgrade in that the mqueue.in dir was
growing and mailscanner stopped scanning files. There was a core file in
there that keeps going in there when it is restarted.

It would keep saying in the log

Mar  9 20:32:12 ns1 MailScanner[12089]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.28.6 starting...
Mar  9 20:32:12 ns1 MailScanner[12023]: New Batch: Scanning 105 messages,
311433 bytes
Mar  9 20:32:17 ns1 MailScanner[12073]: Using locktype = flock
Mar  9 20:32:23 ns1 MailScanner[12041]: New Batch: Scanning 105 messages,
311433 bytes

And keep growing but not deliver any messages with attachments. I tried
switching off the virus scanning, and also turned off spamassassin - made no
difference.

One of the upgrade steps must have broken my whole installation as it still
did not work when I reverted back to the old version of mailscanner ( I have
a link called soft link in opt called MailScanner and change it to the
appropriate version I want to run) , therefore Ive had to restore all of
/usr and /opt as Im not sure what caused it.

If anyone has any idea what might have caused this please let me know.

Thanks
Chris



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