Child Process Hangs

[Craig Retief (CSFS)]

Thanks Steve!!!

I checked the modules and found that the system updated the Storable perl
module. I also checked the Firewall rules and added a rule for the loopback
and the eth0 interface to be able to connect to itself. This has done the
trick and MailWatch.pm is working and logging to the database. ('Funky'ness
Resolved ;->)

After the Firewall rule update I restarted MailScanner with the MailWatch.pm
enabled. My log now shows these additional lines:

Logging message k0B5wnS0006856 to SQL 
k0B5wnS0006856: Logged to MailWatch SQL

Thank you Steve and Julian!!! ;-))

Cheers,
Craig



Hi Craig,

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 18:47 +0200, Craig Retief (CSFS) wrote:
>  
> 
> 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 a harmless warning - it can be ignored.

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

Yes - it looks to be - though I've never seen MailWatch.pm hang a
MailScanner system like this before.

Check that DBI, DBD-MySQL, Sys::Hostname, Socket and Storable perl
modules are installed correctly - also make sure that you aren't doing
anything 'funky' with TCP port 11553 (e.g. delaying or dropping packets
using iptables etc.).

Cheers,
Steve.

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