255 retcodes in syslog

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at COLBY.EDU
Mon Nov 22 13:00:56 GMT 2004 

Julian,
    Yes, this change fixed the problem.  A debug run after this fix
ended with:

debug: bayes: 15435 untie-ing db_seen
debug: bayes: files locked, now unlocking lock
debug: unlock: 15435 unlocked /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes.mutex
Stopping now as you are debugging me.

The "root:" syslog message is now gone.  Thank you!  Now to try the
latest Message.pm that you posted yesterday...

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:11:25 +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
>
> 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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>>> Julian Field
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>>> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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>>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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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
>>
>>
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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>
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