Betr.: MailScanner to crash several times

[Martin Hepworth]

Run mailscanner in debug to get some clues as th what's going on please

Martin

On Tuesday, 20 September 2011, Jan Agermose <ja at conviator.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> now I changed the clamd config to only accept official signaturs - but
before I also simply set mailscanners = none - should disable it all
together. Nothing helps.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken Brady
> Sent: 20. september 2011 16:19
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: Betr.: MailScanner to crash several times
>
> I had the same problem and had to disable the Sane Security Definitions in
 Clamav.
>
> Maillog:
> Quarantined message p7GF1Wuu024997 as it caused MailScanner to crash
several times
>
>
> MailScanner --debug
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Building a message batch to scan...
> Have a batch of 30 messages.
> Can't call method "CombineReports" on unblessed reference at
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/MessageBatch.pm line 736.
>
> Messages log:
> MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit cleanly,
returned 255 with signal 0
>
> Clamav log:
> /opt/mail/incoming/9458/p7BKf75l013289.header:
Sanesecurity.Jurlbl.3982.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
>
> The above errors would repeat for every message in the queue and
quarantine them until I stopped MailScanner and Clamd services and waited 5
minutes.   After that I could move all of the messages back into the queue
and they would scan and process ok.      After disabling Sane Security in
Clamav the problem hasn't returned.
>
> Before disabling Sane Security I tried updating MailScanner and Clamav,
 lowering child processes,  searching for spaces in virus names in clamav.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jan Agermose
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:36 AM
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: Betr.: MailScanner to crash several times
>
> hi
>
> there are a lot of the samme messages for each email that it tries to
handle and gives up on. Nothing has been updated and it has been running for
a long time since last reboot (now I dont know exacly but im guessing months
since last reboot).
>
> I tried lowering the child count to 4, having retry count = 6 and I even
set virusscanner = none
>
> still getting the error
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Arjan Melein
> Sent: 20. september 2011 15:09
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Betr.: MailScanner to crash several times
>
>>>> Op 20-9-2011 om 14:46 is door Jan Agermose <ja at conviator.com>
geschreven:
>> hi
>> one of our mailscanners has started behaving very strange. its
>> processing no emails anymore with succes only saying for each mail in
>> the queue
>>
>> Sep 20 14:38:15 mx3 MailScanner[2282]: Warning: skipping message
>> p8JHBZlF011310 as it has been attempted too many times Sep 20 14:38:15
>> mx3 MailScanner[2282]: Quarantined message p8JHBZlF011310 as it caused
>> MailScanner to crash several times Sep 20 14:38:15 mx3
>> MailScanner[2282]: Saved entire message to
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20110920/p8JHBZlF011310
>>
>> what might be the problem - what to look for?
>>
>> MailScanner --lint reports no problems
>
>
> Are there no more messages then these 3 ?
> I remember having something simular when there was a permission problem
after an update. Or when you have the max retries at the same or a lower
setting then the number of childs MS can spam, then the old age timer can
grab valid e-mails.
>
> -
> Arjan
>
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Martin Hepworth
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