Odd error in logs

[Glenn Steen]

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On 08/11/05, paddy <paddy at panici.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:26:07AM -0500, Dave Filchak wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Over the past two weeks or so, after an update to almost the latest (
> > have not installed the very last release yet ) I have started to see the
> > following in my log reports:
> >
> >     Your spam actions "/etc/mailscanner/rules/spamoptions.rules" looks
> > like a filename. If this is a ruleset filename, it must end in .rule or
> > .rules : 16 Time(s)
> >
> > This is odd because my rules file is named properly and in the right
> > place. Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Not sure that I can, but I'll try ...
>
> The relevant code reads something like:
>
>   $actions = MailScanner::Config::Value(CONFIG_OPTION, $this);
>
> (where CONFIG_OPTION is one of hamactions highscorespamactions spamactions)
>
>   .
>   .
>   .
>
>   @actions = split(" ", $actions);
>
>   return unless @actions;
>
>   # If they have just specified a filename, then something is wrong
>   if ($#actions==0 && $actions[0] =~ /\//) {
>     MailScanner::Log::WarnLog('Your spam actions "%s" looks like a filename.' .
>         ' If this is a ruleset filename, it must end in .rule or .rules',
>         $actions[0]);
>     $actions[0] = 'deliver';
>   }
>
> So my wild guess is that Config::Value returns something like
> '/etc/mailscanner/rules/spamoptions.rules' (when what you wanted returned was inside there)
>
> At which point I'm wondering:
>
> grep -i ^[^#]*actions MailScanner.conf
>
> An example of ruleset configuration might look like:
>
> Virus Scanning = %rules-dir%/Virus.Scanning.rules
>
> I even wonder whether you have a '/etc/mailscanner/' instead of '/etc/Mailscanner/' ?
>
> If its failing to load you might see WarnLog("Cannot open filename-rules file %s, skipping"
>
> I get kind of dizzy when I grep "\$isrules =" Config.pm
>
> But that's all I got right now.
>
> Any help ?
>
> Regards,
> Paddy
> --
> Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall

I haven't checked *anything*, just thinking along... Might the
spamoptions.rules filename contain "embedded non-printable chars"? Or
might it lack read perms for the user MS is running as?

--
-- Glenn
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