Good afternoon, A few weeks back, I put together a new Postfix + Amavis + Cyrus confgiuration on a VPS running Fedora Core 4, and by and large everything has worked well. However, once in December, and once this morning, I've randomly (with no apparent rhyme or reason) started seeing messages like this in the log:
Jan 10 09:44:42 panther amavis[26708]: (26708-17) Checking: WR6A19p5EGN7 [66.49.176.45] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan 10 09:44:42 panther amavis[16260]: (26708-17) (!!)run_command: child process [16260]: Can't open /dev/null: Permission denied at /.../amavisd line 2354. Jan 10 09:44:42 panther amavis[26708]: (26708-17) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail: parts_decode_ext FAILED: parsing file(1) results - missing last 1 results at (eval 59) line 156. Jan 10 09:44:42 panther amavis[26708]: (26708-17) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /.../amavis/tmp/tmp/amavis-20070110T081552-26708 Out of curiosity, I added some additional output to that "Can't open" error line in Amavis, and in this call, flags == mode == 0, if that is of any signifiance: Jan 10 09:55:04 panther amavis[26034]: (23883-01) (!!)run_command: child process [26034]: Can't open /dev/null (flags=0, mode=0): Permission denied at /.../amavisd line 2354, <GEN5> line 165. Jan 10 09:55:04 panther amavis[23883]: (23883-01) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail: parts_decode_ext FAILED: parsing file(1) results - missing last 2 results at (eval 59) line 156. Jan 10 09:55:04 panther amavis[23883]: (23883-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /.../amavis/tmp/tmp/amavis-20070110T095504-23883 At the time that this happened, /dev/null was showing permissions of 0660. A "temporary fix" (and the one I employed in December) was to 'chomd 666 /dev/null' and away it went. But now the question is: is this really the best solution, and if it is a permissions thing, why would there be any change? If it isn't, is this in any way related to Amavis, or is it pointing to a bigger problem? * Fedora Core 4, Amavisd-New 2.4.4 (w/SA 3.1.7), file 4.13 Any ideas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
