Solaris 10 init.d startup failing

Fri Sep 1 15:20:59 IST 2006

Hi,

I undertook to report back on the results of trussing the 
mailscanner processes. I have run the program under truss but I can't see 
anything obviously strange. However a 
workaround has become apparent; starting mailscanner from a subshell 
called in the init.d script works

e.g

su - root -c "/opt/mailscanner/bin/MailScanner"

possibly, this implies that there is some environment variable such as 
PATH 
or 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH that needs to be set, but I am not sure what it is. Any ideas?

Regards
____________________________________________________________________________
Ray Gardener,
IT Services, LITS,
Sheffield Hallam University,
Howard Street,
Sheffield,
UK
S1 1WB
Telephone: +44 114 225 4926
Fax: +44 114 225 3840
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Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Ray Gardener wrote:

> Many thanks for the number of useful replies; I would be interested in using 
> a different manifest to the one that I knocked together quicker and tried 
> with no positive results. One thing I haven't  tried and should is to trace 
> the errant mailscanner processes using something like truss which I will try 
> and do and report back the findings.
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> Ray Gardener,
> IT Services, LITS,
> Sheffield Hallam University,
> Howard Street,
> Sheffield,
> UK
> S1 1WB
> Telephone: +44 114 225 4926
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> Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
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>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>> Randy Fishel wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Aug 24, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:49:46 +0100
>>>>> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Solaris 10 init.d startup failing
>>>>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:14 +0100
>>>>>>> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
>>>>>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Solaris 10 init.d startup failing
>>>>>>> Ray Gardener wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> I had cause to reboot a Sunblade server running Exim and MailScanner 
>>>>>>>> version 4.53.8 and noticed a error. The mailscanner program is 
>>>>>>>> started by invoking MailScanner from the exim startup script in 
>>>>>>>> /etc/init.d. [I know this is a legacy method for Solaris 10 but do 
>>>>>>>> this to maintain consistency with other mailhubs based on Solaris 
>>>>>>>> 9]. On boot-up mainscannner instances were started and the startup 
>>>>>>>> log line was present in /var/log/maillog but the instances of 
>>>>>>>> mailscanner ate memory very quickly and didn't process mail. 
>>>>>>>> Pkilling the mailscanner instances and stopping and starting the 
>>>>>>>> init.d script resulted in a working system processing mail.
>>>>>>>> Has anyone else seen this on Solaris 10 and if so is there a 
>>>>>>>> workaround?
>>>>>>>> Incientally I later created a smf mailscanner service and tried to 
>>>>>>>> use that to start mailscanner but this also ate memory and didn't 
>>>>>>>> process mail.
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________________________ 
>>>>>>>> Ray Gardener,
>>>>>>>> IT Services, LITS,
>>>>>>>> Sheffield Hallam University,
>>>>>>>> Howard Street,
>>>>>>>> Sheffield,
>>>>>>>> UK
>>>>>>>> S1 1WB
>>>>>>>> Telephone: +44 114 225 4926
>>>>>>>> Fax: +44 114 225 3840
>>>>>>>> Mobile: +44 07788190005
>>>>>>>> Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
>>>>>>> Ray
>>>>>>> only problem like this is when using MS in combination with 
>>>>>>> MailWatch.
>>>>>>> Problem can be that mysql isn't fully operational by the time MS 
>>>>>>> starts up...so the first connection hangs.
>>>>>>> I solved this by putting a wait 30 at the start() function to make 
>>>>>>> sure mysql is up and accepting connections before we start MS.
>>>>>> Martin,
>>>>>> Can you post a diff of your change to the list so I can try it here?
>>>>>> I don't use MailWatch or sql, so maybe a smaller wait time would solve
>>>>>> my issue.  Thanks.
>>>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>>>> Colby College
>>>>> Jeff
>>>>> 
>>>>> just added a sleep 30 at the top of the start) case statement in the 
>>>>> rc.d script...
>>>> 
>>>> Nope, didn't work for me.  I turned on the "-x" option in my init.d
>>>> script, the check_mailscanner script, watched it as I ran things by
>>>> hand.  The loop-up is somewhere after the bin/MailScanner perl code
>>>> is launched.  FWIW, the "stop" option in my init.d script does not
>>>> work either.  The only way I can get things stopped is via
>>>> "pkill -9 MailScanner".  The mystery continues.
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>> Colby College
>>>> --
>>> 
>>>   I just created a manifest and have MailScanner run as a service and 
>>> have had no problems starting _or_ stopping it.  By setting all the 
>>> correct dependancies, there should be no reason for waiting.  My manifest 
>>> replaces the Solaris smtp service, and starts sendmail as well, but there 
>>> is no reason that there couldn't be a manifest for MailScanner that 
>>> depends on sendmail or any other MTA.  I could easily generate a 
>>> MailScanner manifest and test it standalone if there is value.
>>> 
>>> rf
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>> Randy
>> 
>> How about posting that to the list, or (even better) drop in to the wiki.
>> 
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>> Martin Hepworth
>> Senior Systems Administrator
>> Solid State Logic
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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