MailScanner stoped working after PERL upgrade (I think so)

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Dec 5 15:20:40 GMT 2005


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On 5 Dec 2005, at 15:05, Boris Jordanov / Ð^ÑоÑ^ÀиÑ^Á Ð^ÙоÑ^Àданов  
wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>> It didn't give you a line number did it?
>> And what does the end of the maillog look like when it's just bombed
>> out with this?
>>
>> And does this patch to Postfix.pm fix the problem?
>
> After the patch:
>
> /var/log/maillog
>
> Dec  5 16:58:52 im MailScanner[9011]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.48.4 starting...
> Dec  5 16:58:53 im MailScanner[9011]: Read 683 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Dec  5 16:58:53 im MailScanner[9011]: lock.pl sees Config  LockType  
> =  flock
> Dec  5 16:58:53 im MailScanner[9011]: lock.pl sees have_module =  0
> Dec  5 16:58:53 im MailScanner[9011]: Using locktype = flock
>
> And nothing more, the second MailScanner process does not start
>
> [root at im MailScanner]# service MailScanner restart
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [FAILED]
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       In Debugging mode, not forking...
>
> The same here. This time no error messages, but the mail is not
> checked/delivered.
>
> [root at im MailScanner]# ll /var/spool/postfix/hold/
> total 8
> -rwx------  1 postfix postfix 1130 Dec  5 16:54 09E3416FBD
> -rwx------  1 postfix postfix 2101 Dec  5 14:51 7392E16FD4

Just before line 332 of Postfix.pm, there are 4 "print STDERR" lines.  
Please uncomment these lines (remove the # from the start of the  
line), and run MailScanner in Debug=yes mode. This should make it  
print a bunch of numbers, please show me what it prints.
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