Perl taint issue and instability

[Jeremy McSpadden]

I'm on the same boat. I have several servers which have taint issues. Mostly faults at File.pm and scanning attachments. I'm not a programmer, and unfortunately cannot help. It sucks. I'm not sure where the breakage is. If its MS causing deprecated code, or is it actually perl?


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Jeremy McSpadden

On Oct 1, 2011, at 12:02 PM, "Dave Jones" <davejones70 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone else frustrated with the taint issue causing MailScanner instability?
> 
> I have 8 MailScanner servers -- half are CentOS 5 with Sendmail and the other half are SL6 using Postfix.  My new boxes are running the latest version of MailScanner with the "#!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner -U" setting.
> 
> The SL6 servers running perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 are not stable.  Icinga is constantly telling me to restart MailScanner on one of them every few days.  I have a script that pushes out changes from a central location and runs "service MailScanner reload."  Many times the reload fails causing me to have to manually run a full restart.
> 
> I know the Baruwa mailing also has many posts with the same problems.
> 
> Is MailScanner fixed and the problem is cause by the underlying perl modules that are not updated to run under perl 5.10?
> 
> I have been waiting for over 6 months to put my SL6 boxes into a full production load once they are stable but it's about time to reload them with SL5 to get back to perl 5.8.8 and stability.
> 
> Dave
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