255 retcodes in syslog

[Julian Field]

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Please can you try the Message.pm from 4.36.1 as I fixed 1 syslog bug in
there.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> Weirdness with 4.35.11 plus latest Message.pm; this may be the cause
> of my excess load.  I noticed a gob of the following in my syslogs
> over the last day or so:
>
> Nov 19 14:50:54 basalt <12>root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
>
> I found a couple of tnef files in my /var/spool/mqueue that should not
> have been there.  I zapped them and ran MS in debug mode.  The end of
> that output said:
>
> syslog: expecting argument $format at
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 140
> 255
>
> The "MailScanner -v" output is attached and I can send you the entire
> debug output if needed (518K).  The only other thing that I've done
> lately (yesterday) was install dccifd for DCC, which seems to work
> correctly.  I followed the MAQ, following the advice of:
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/312.html
>
> (Thanks Ugo and Tomar)
>
> Advice please?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Running on
>SunOS basalt 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12
>This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>
>This is MailScanner version 4.35.11
>Module versions are:
>1.00   AnyDBM_File
>1.14   Archive::Zip
>1.03   Carp
>1.119  Convert::BinHex
>1.00   DirHandle
>1.05   Fcntl
>2.73   File::Basename
>2.08   File::Copy
>2.01   FileHandle
>1.06   File::Path
>0.14   File::Temp
>1.27   HTML::Entities
>3.36   HTML::Parser
>2.28   HTML::TokeParser
>1.21   IO
>1.10   IO::File
>1.123  IO::Pipe
>3.05   MIME::Base64
>5.415  MIME::Decoder
>5.415  MIME::Decoder::UU
>5.415  MIME::Head
>5.415  MIME::Parser
>3.03   MIME::QuotedPrint
>5.415  MIME::Tools
>0.10   Net::CIDR
>1.08   POSIX
>1.77   Socket
>0.05   Sys::Syslog
>1.02   Time::localtime
>
>Optional module versions are:
>1.810  DB_File
>1.08   Digest
>1.01   Digest::HMAC
>2.33   Digest::MD5
>2.10   Digest::SHA1
>0.44   Inline
>0.12   Mail::ClamAV
>3.000001       Mail::SpamAssassin
>1.997  Mail::SPF::Query
>0.15   Net::CIDR::Lite
>0.48   Net::DNS
>missing        Net::LDAP
>1.94   Parse::RecDescent
>0.25   SAVI
>1.2    Sys::Hostname::Long
>2.42   Test::Harness
>0.47   Test::Simple
>1.95   Text::Balanced
>1.35   URI
>
>

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