sophossavi errors on Red Hat Enterprise version 4

[Ray Gardener]

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Martin,

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. we are using 32bit processors so I
don't think this is the issue but I will check.




> Ray
>
> from my misty memory I remember Julian (or someone) commenting on this
> and finding out that Sophos themselves have a problem with 64bit Linux
> kernels, and are working to fox it sometime.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Ray Gardener wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently upgraded one of my servers to RHEL version 4. After bringing
>> this into use I noticed a problem with load on the server going up
>> dramatically. On inspection I saw a mailscanner process consuming 1.4GB
>> of
>> memory. This was causing the system to page memory frantically!!!.
>> Looking in the log files I saw indications that sophossavi was seeing
>> some
>> of the mail as a denial of service attack and noticed that certain files
>> from my incoming spool file were not been processed. However some of the
>> files were been processed.  I switched the scanner type from sophossavi
>> to
>> sophos and these files were cleared and the problems with memory and
>> load
>> haven't reoccurred. Thinking that there was some problem with Savi-Perl
>> I
>> downloaded the latest version and recompiled it. It ran make OK; but on
>> "make test" I got the following message below. [At the end of this
>> message
>> are the details of my system and version of mailscanner] Obviously I am
>> OK
>> using sophos but would like sophossavi to work - Has anyone got this
>> working under RHEL 4 or had similar problem (with hopefully a fix)?
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
>> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
>> t/use....Can't load
>> '/home/cisrag/SAVI-Perl-0.30/blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so' for module
>> SAVI:
>> libsavi.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
>>  at t/use.t line 8
>> Compilation failed in require at t/use.t line 8.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/use.t line 8.
>> t/use....dubious
>>         Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
>> DIED. FAILED test 1
>>         Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
>> Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> t/use.t      255 65280     1    2 200.00%  1
>> Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/1 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> System details
>>  uname -a
>> Linux coffee.shu.ac.uk 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 8 14:29:47 EDT
>> 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> 2Gb memory dual Xeon system
>> Runni
> ng Red hat Enterprise Edition version 4
>>
>> MailScanner version is 4.40.11
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ray Gardener
>> CIS
>> Sheffield Hallam University
>> Telephone: 0114 225 4926
>> Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
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--
Ray Gardener
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Sheffield Hallam University
Telephone: 0114 225 4926
Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk

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