MS started crashing ...

[Ugo Bellavance]

Garry Glendown wrote:
> Today, MS started piling up messages - checking the system, I noticed
> continuous zombie-MS, running it with --debug/--debug-sa, I found that
> MS keeps crashing, probably caused by a message ... how can I find what
> is causing this?
> 
> Here's the last couple lines, the "format error" lines repeated
> something like 50 times ...
> 
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 820
> Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/�è>Mx�jm�B�\6 <-- HERE
> wԿ�Q�����ĩ�#��������D�-r�h���\.���H!��d��D�U�IWW������U\[eB4��T��mҫ�h�b�1D×����~i˩�=��|4����Rke3��Gj�\.�3\^��bi/N���/�\�/����~D��V���ͷ���\]��rp�\?�u�/�\^:/
> at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 3304, <GEN250> line 2.
> 
> WTF?

Check in the logs first to see if there is one message that keeps on 
coming over and over again.

Another idea would be to stop your MTA then let MailScanner run for a 
while and see what remains in the incoming queue.  If you can't tell, 
move all queue files to another directory and re-move them one by one.

Ugo