Problems MailScanner 4.78.17

Sun Nov 22 12:14:23 GMT 2009

On 20/11/2009 15:24, ThB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got some problems running MailScanner 4.78.18
>
> a) Taint problem in SweepOther.pm&  SweepViruses.pm
>    
I hope I have found them. Try the latest beta.
> b) Processing&  SpamAssassin Cache Databases problems
>    
I cannot reproduce this fault. Judging from the "Cannot cd to dir ... to 
read messages" I would suggest you have put something wrong in your 
MailScanner.conf file. "MailScanner --changed" will help you find what's 
wrong.
> I'm running MailScanner on Solaris 9 and Perl 5.8.9
> (also tried 5.10.1 but had the same problems)
>
>
> a) Taint problem with virus scanners
> ------------------------------------
> Virus Scanners = clamavmodule sophossavi
>
> MailScanner --debug
>
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> Trying to setlogsock(native)
> Building a message batch to scan...
> Have a batch of 1 message.
> File checker failed with real error: Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SweepOther.pm line 431.
>   at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SweepOther.pm line 443
> Commercial virus checker failed with real error: path argument specified to scan() is tainted at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 1169
>   at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 1102
> Stopping now as you are debugging me.
>
>
> Note: for some reasons I cannot switch to clamd and sophie is not supported by MailScanner.
>
>
> b) Processing&  SpamAssassin Cache Databases problems
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> There are 2 problems.
>
> 1. MailScanner ignores the configuration settings
> configured:
> Processing Attempts Database = /tmp/MailScanner/Processing.db
> SpamAssassin Cache Database File = /tmp/MailScanner/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>
> MailScanner creates the configured databases if they do not exist
> ls -la /tmp/MailScanner/
> total 32
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mailscn mail  265 2009-11-20 15:19 ./
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root    sys   268 2009-11-20 15:19 ../
> -rw------- 1 mailscn mail 4096 2009-11-20 15:19 Processing.db
> -rw------- 1 mailscn mail 5120 2009-11-20 15:18 SpamAssassin.cache.db
>
> but using:
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>
> Logfile:
> Nov 20 15:18:00 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Nov 20 15:18:00 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> Nov 20 15:18:00 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
> Nov 20 15:18:28 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] SophosSAVI 4.45 (engine 2.90) recognizing 991629 viruses
> Nov 20 15:18:28 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] SophosSAVI using 581 IDE files
> Nov 20 15:19:01 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Connected to Processing Attempts Database
> Nov 20 15:19:01 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Found 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
> Nov 20 15:19:01 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.info] Using locktype = posix
> Nov 20 15:19:01 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.warning] Cannot cd to dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db to read messages, Not a directory
> Nov 20 15:19:01 caval MailScanner.conf.caval[3507]: [ID 702911 local1.warning] Cannot cd to dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db to read messages, Not a directory
>
>
> MailScanner.conf
> Incoming Work Dir = /tmp/MailScanner
> SpamAssassin Temporary Dir = /tmp/MailScanner
> SpamAssassin Cache Database File = /tmp/MailScanner/SpamAssassin.cache.db
> Processing Attempts Database = /tmp/MailScanner/Processing.db
>
> Btw:
> This configuration was workling well with the old MailScanner 4.64.3-2.
> I made the configuration upgrade using the upgrade_MailScanner_conf script. (no processing database of course).
>
>
> Perl&  Modules
> --------------
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner -v
> Running on
> SunOS caval 5.9 Generic_Virtual sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6320
> This is Perl version 5.008009 (5.8.9)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.78.17
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.10    Carp
> 1.41    Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.121_17        Data::Dumper
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.02    DirHandle
> 1.06    Fcntl
> 2.77    File::Basename
> 2.13    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 2.07_02 File::Path
> 0.20    File::Temp
> 0.90    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.56    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.04    Mail::Header
> 1.89    Math::BigInt
> 0.22    Math::BigRat
> 3.07    MIME::Base64
> 5.427   MIME::Decoder
> 5.427   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.427   MIME::Head
> 5.427   MIME::Parser
> 3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.427   MIME::Tools
> 0.13    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.16    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.05    Pod::Simple
> 1.15    POSIX
> 1.19    Scalar::Util
> 1.81    Socket
> 2.19    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.27    Sys::Syslog
> 1.26    Test::Pod
> 0.86    Test::Simple
> 1.9715  Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.38    Archive::Tar
> 0.23    bignum
> missing Business::ISBN
> missing Business::ISBN::Data
> missing Data::Dump
> 1.817   DB_File
> 1.25    DBD::SQLite
> 1.607   DBI
> 1.15    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.37    Digest::MD5
> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
> missing Encode::Detect
> 0.17015 Error
> missing ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.19    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.38    Getopt::Long
> 0.45    Inline
> missing IO::String
> 1.09    IO::Zlib
> 2.27    IP::Country
> 0.29    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.002005        Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.004  Mail::SPF
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.35    Module::Build
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.65    Net::DNS
> v0.003  Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> missing Net::LDAP
>   4.027  NetAddr::IP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> 0.30    SAVI
> 3.16    Test::Harness
> missing Test::Manifest
> 1.98    Text::Balanced
> 1.40    URI
> 0.78    version
> missing YAML
>
>
> perl -V
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 9) configuration:
>    Platform:
>      osname=solaris, osvers=2.9, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
>      uname='sunos sphinx 5.9 generic_virtual sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fire-v240 '
>      config_args=''
>      hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>      usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
>      useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
>      use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
>      usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>    Compiler:
>      cc='/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
>      optimize='-O',
>      cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include'
>      ccversion='Sun C 5.8 Patch 121015-06 2007/10/03', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
>      intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
>      d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
>      ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
>      alignbytes=8, prototype=define
>    Linker and Libraries:
>      ld='/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib '
>      libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
>      libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
>      perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
>      libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
>      gnulibc_version=''
>    Dynamic Linking:
>      dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
>      cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
>    Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
>                          USE_FAST_STDIO USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
>                          USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
>    Built under solaris
>    Compiled at Nov 19 2009 13:28:41
>    @INC:
>      /opt/MailScanner/perl/lib/5.8.9/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
>      /opt/MailScanner/perl/lib/5.8.9
>      /opt/MailScanner/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.9/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
>      /opt/MailScanner/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.9
>      .
>
>
> Any help is appreciated
> regards and have a greate weekend
> Thomas
>
>
>    

Jules

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