Syslogging broken

[Scott Silva]

on 3-26-2009 2:44 AM Tom Weber spake the following:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2009, 09:08 +0000 schrieb Martin Hepworth:
>> Tom
>>
>> from memory this was a problem with Greg's syslog.conf setup.
> 
> Not afair. Greg also claimed that MailScanner suddenly started logging
> as local3 not mail. 
> One may be able to work around this by redirecting local3 in syslog.conf
> which is what he probably did.
> 
> His Logs and mine below clearly show that MailScanner logging comes with
> wrong facility into syslog.
> 
> This might be some perl or perl module weirdness below MailScanner, but
> it's definitely not a config problem with syslog.
> 
> I suspect that things (open files / handles) get messed up while forking
> the childs. I'm not good enough at perl and deep enough into MailScanner
> to dig through this though.
> 
>   Tom
> 
>> 2009/3/26 Tom Weber <l_mailscanner at mail2news.4t2.com>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> last month there was a thread from Greg Deputy about Mailscanner not
>>> logging correctly to syslog. While Greg probably worked around his
>>> problem, I think it still exists.
>>>
>>> On debian lenny with Mailscanner from testing (4.74.16-1) I get logging
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> 1,6,Mar 26 01:06:18,MailScanner: MailScanner setting GID to postfix (333)
>>> 1,6,Mar 26 01:06:18,MailScanner: MailScanner setting UID to postfix (333)
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.74.16 starting...
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: Read 848 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: Read 4278 hostnames from the phishing blacklist
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:19,MailScanner[9707]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
>>> 19,7,Mar 26 01:06:20,check[9707]: [ 2] [bootup] Logging initiated LogDebugLevel=3 to sys-syslog
>>> 19,7,Mar 26 01:06:21,check[9707]: [ 3] mail 1 is not known spam.
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:24,MailScanner[9713]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.74.16 starting...
>>> 2,6,Mar 26 01:06:24,MailScanner[9713]: Read 848 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> 
> 
Is it only showing up in Debian?
I don't have any problems in CentOS, maybe something is broken in a Debian
perl module or the Debian package. Or maybe the Debian package inits too early
and breaks something there?


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