Problems MailScanner 4.78.17
Jules Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Nov 23 19:54:25 GMT 2009
On 23/11/2009 13:34, ThB wrote:
>
> Excerpt from output of MailScanner --changed
> (I added some formatting to improve readability)
>
> The above is what I expected. But the paths for "Processing.db" and
> "SpamAssassin.cache.db" also show up in "incomingqueuedir" but with the
> default values.
>
> Option Name:
> incomingqueuedir
> Default:
> /var/spool/mqueue.in
> Current:
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/input,\
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks,\
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/msglog,\
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db,\
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp,\
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>
Please show me exactly what your MailScanner.conf file shows for the
"Incoming Queue Dir =" setting.
>
> regards
> Thomas
>
>
>
>>> 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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>> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
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>>
>
Jules
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Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
Need help customising MailScanner?
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