255 retcodes in syslog

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Nov 21 12:11:25 GMT 2004


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Can you change Log.pm line 140 to read
    Sys::Syslog::syslog($level, $_) if $_ ne "";
and tell me if this helps.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
>    What I already had in my 4.35.11 and the Message.pm file in 4.36.1
> were the same (cksum = 1930658726 166284).  Thinking that the syslog
> fix might have been someplace else in 4.36.1, I went ahead and upgraded
> to 4.36.1.  Still the same syslog complaint at the bottom of a debug
> run:
>
> syslog: expecting argument $format at
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 140
> 255
>
> The entire debug output is 496KB.  The "MailScanner -v" output is
> attached.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:27:26 +0000
>> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: 255 retcodes in syslog
>>
>> 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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>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>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 4.36.1
>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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