4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 23 14:20:37 GMT 2005


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Can you compare the configs. It is apparently failing to get the message
filenames altogether. No-one else has seen this problem :-(

Quentin Campbell wrote:

>Julian
>
>Have checked all these things and they are OK!  :-(
>
>I can see the point at which it is failing after a virus has been
>detected. On a good system you get the sequence of logged MailScanner
>messages:
>
>...
>MailScanner[5117]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
>MailScanner[5117]: Virus Scanning completed at 22614 bytes per second
>... [sendmail messages]
>MailScanner[5117]: Notices: Warned about 1 messages
>MailScanner[5117]: Virus Processing completed at 45228 bytes per second
>
>Wheras on the failing 4.39.3-1 system you get:
>
>MailScanner[10011]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
>MailScanner[10011]: Virus Scanning completed at 41719 bytes per second
>... [sendmail messages]
>MailScanner[10011]: Cannot open message file , No such file or directory
>
>
>
>Quentin
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>                           University of Newcastle,
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>"Any opinion expressed above is mine. The University can get its own."
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: 23 February 2005 11:51
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>>
>>It appears in the Spam Bounce handler, the Spam Notify handler, the
>>Attachment-Warning.txt generator, and the Warn Sender code.
>>It will happen if you have a missing filename for one of the report
>>files, or if the report files don't exist. Check your MailScanner.conf
>>carefully, and check your %report-dir% points to the right place, and
>>you haven't mis-spelled anything.
>>
>>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Julian
>>>
>>>No, we have a single directory, /var/spool/mqueue.in. This is
>>>
>>>
>>as it has
>>
>>
>>>always been.
>>>
>>>The command "ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue.in" returns:
>>>
>>>drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Feb 23 09:43
>>>/var/spool/mqueue.in
>>>
>>>and the command "ls -lR /var/spool/mqueue.in" returns at present:
>>>
>>>/var/spool/mqueue.in:
>>>total 0
>>>
>>>The group perhaps should be "mail" but on our mail gateways the setup
>>>above is secure.
>>>
>>>Note that whenI ran 4.39.3-1 in debug mode with two messages in the
>>>mqueue.in queue, both messages were processed OK and without the log
>>>message being generated. However before that point the
>>>
>>>
>>reported message
>>
>>
>>>message did occur for other messages so it appears to be
>>>
>>>
>>message content
>>
>>
>>>dependent.
>>>
>>>Quentin
>>>---
>>>PHONE: +44 191 222 8209    Information Systems and Services (ISS),
>>>                          University of Newcastle,
>>>                          Newcastle upon Tyne,
>>>FAX:   +44 191 222 8765    United Kingdom, NE1 7RU.
>>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>----------
>>
>>
>>>"Any opinion expressed above is mine. The University can get its own."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>>Sent: 23 February 2005 09:51
>>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>>>>
>>>>Do you have nested sendmail mqueue.in directories? i.e. mqueue.in/df,
>>>>mqueue.in/qf etc directories?
>>>>
>>>>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Have installed BETA 4.39.3-1 in place of a happily working 4.38.9-1
>>>>>system on a RH AS 3 system (called "cheviot7") running Sendmail and
>>>>>SpamAssassin.
>>>>>
>>>>>Simply did the install as usual then added the new MailScanner.conf
>>>>>lines to the previous MailScanner.conf file and changed the version
>>>>>number of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>After the installation of 4.39.3-1 I also applied Julian's
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>latest patch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>(22/Feb) to Message.pm.
>>>>>
>>>>>System appeared to be running OK but in fact we immediatley started
>>>>>seeing the following messages in log:
>>>>>
>>>>>"Feb 22 14:47:43 cheviot7 MailScanner[18419]: Cannot open
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>message file ,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>No such file or directory" and messages began to pile up in
>>>>>/var/spool/mqueue.in.
>>>>>
>>>>>This error message seems to originate from Message.pm. I
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>see it in the
>>
>>
>>>>>logs whether I am running the patched version of Message.pm or the
>>>>>unpatched version.
>>>>>
>>>>>Quentin
>>>>>---
>>>>>PHONE: +44 191 222 8209    Information Systems and Services (ISS),
>>>>>                         University of Newcastle,
>>>>>                         Newcastle upon Tyne,
>>>>>FAX:   +44 191 222 8765    United Kingdom, NE1 7RU.
>>>>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>----------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Any opinion expressed above is mine. The University can
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>get its own."
>>
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