Child Process Hangs

[Craig Retief (CSFS)]

Hi Julian:

 

I checked and debug = no.

 

You are right on the DB logging, it is not taking place.

 

Hi Steve:

 

I changed the Always Looked Up Last to no and it seems to have done the
trick – thanks ;-).

 

I ran the perl -w MailWatch.pm command and got this -> “Useless use
of private variable in void context at MailWatch.pm line 247.”

 

This is the section of MailWatch.pm that it is complaining about:

 

while(($file, $text) = each %{$message->{allreports}}) {

     $file = "the entire message" if $file eq "";

     # Use the sanitised filename to avoid problems caused by people
forcing

     # logging of attachment filenames which contain nasty SQL
instructions.

     $file = $message->{file2safefile}{$file} or $file;

     $text =~ s/\n/ /;  # Make sure text report only contains 1 line

     $text =~ s/\t/ /; # and no tab characters

     push (@report_array, $text);

   }

 

Is this as Julian made me realize maybe a DB logging error?

 


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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: 10 January 2006 06:33 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Child Process Hangs

 

 

On 10 Jan 2006, at 16:13, Craig wrote:



Hi All,

 

I freshly installed MailScanner 4.50.5, spamassassin, clamav 0.88, razor,
pyzor, dcc and MailWatch 1.0.3. I also updated all perl modules to the
latest.

 

When I send a message, the MailScanner proccess stays is the
"MailScanner: finishing batch" state.

 

This sounds like it is failing to do the MailWatch database logging.



I noticed that MailScanner dies after all the child processes have
processed a batch. If I kill one of the child processes, the MailScanner
master starts a new process thus indicating that something in the
processing of the message batch prevents the child process of dying.

 

Are you sure you do not have "Debug = yes" in MailScanner.conf?



Is there a way that I can check what might be causing this as I have
checked the logs and done spamassassin lint test which produces no errors
that indicate anything???

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