problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10
Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big deal, cause the sender gets notified that their mail wasn't delivered and hopefully, they will resend it. However, the problem is that I've tried to debug my script but found nothing wrong at all, cause it only fails from time to time, let's say... once for each 2000 messages that postfix receives, and it appears to do so in a random way. As i said... postfix can fail to deliver a message to one particular mailbox, but if then you resend the very same message to the very same mailbox, it will be delivered. The error is reported in both "maillog" and "messages", like this: **/var/log/maillog Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 postfix/pipe[27534]: 3E1A0143709: to=, relay=quota_postfix, delay=0.23, delays=0.11/0/0/0.11, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with signal 10: "/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix") */var/log/messages*** Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 kernel: pid 29535 (quota_postfix), uid 125: exited on signal 10 Here you have some extra information about the script itself and the master.cf */usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix*** # ls -la /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix -rwsr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 20048 Aug 4 10:18 /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix It's got de suid flag cause it performs a "du" command and other file operations which need permissions, although i've tried with other groups of permissions and it eventually crashes anyway with "signal 10" **master.cf* . # spamfilter spamfilter unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/home/antispam.pl "localhost:10027" "antispam" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "/usr/local/bin/spamc" # from spamfilter to smtpd:10026 localhost:10027 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter=quota_postfix # quota_postfix quota_postfix unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix "localhost" "10028" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "${domain}" # from quota_postfix to smtpd:10028 localhost:10028 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter= So far, any program which crashed would leave a ".core" file in /usr/crash, but this one is not doing the same, so... i can't actually debug from the core file either. Sysctl in my FreeBSD server is ok, but i guess that postfix, somehow is preventing this filter from generating a core file. Is that possible? Or am i completely wrong? How could I, at least, generate the .core file? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10
Jordi Moles Blanco presented these words - circa 8/7/08 3:13 AM-> Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big deal, cause the sender gets notified that their mail wasn't delivered and hopefully, they will resend it. However, the problem is that I've tried to debug my script but found nothing wrong at all, cause it only fails from time to time, let's say... once for each 2000 messages that postfix receives, and it appears to do so in a random way. As i said... postfix can fail to deliver a message to one particular mailbox, but if then you resend the very same message to the very same mailbox, it will be delivered. The error is reported in both "maillog" and "messages", like this: **/var/log/maillog Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 postfix/pipe[27534]: 3E1A0143709: to=, relay=quota_postfix, delay=0.23, delays=0.11/0/0/0.11, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with signal 10: "/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix") */var/log/messages*** Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 kernel: pid 29535 (quota_postfix), uid 125: exited on signal 10 Well signal 10 is SIGBUS which is indicative of (generally) a bad address, non-aligned memory address (on platforms it matters) or a hardware error. I would look for places you are dereferencing a pointer without perhaps first validating it. Given that it rarely occurs, I might suspect that you are allocating some memory, but failing to completely initialize (malloc() doesn't zero out memory) it or assuming it is already initialize. Good luck, Patrick Here you have some extra information about the script itself and the master.cf */usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix*** # ls -la /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix -rwsr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 20048 Aug 4 10:18 /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix It's got de suid flag cause it performs a "du" command and other file operations which need permissions, although i've tried with other groups of permissions and it eventually crashes anyway with "signal 10" **master.cf* . # spamfilter spamfilter unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/home/antispam.pl "localhost:10027" "antispam" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "/usr/local/bin/spamc" # from spamfilter to smtpd:10026 localhost:10027 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter=quota_postfix # quota_postfix quota_postfix unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix "localhost" "10028" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "${domain}" # from quota_postfix to smtpd:10028 localhost:10028 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter= So far, any program which crashed would leave a ".core" file in /usr/crash, but this one is not doing the same, so... i can't actually debug from the core file either. Sysctl in my FreeBSD server is ok, but i guess that postfix, somehow is preventing this filter from generating a core file. Is that possible? Or am i completely wrong? How could I, at least, generate the .core file? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10
Hi, thanks for the reply, i will have a close look at what you suggested. The thing is that, yes, i work with arrays, pointers, mallocs and so on. I'll try to make sure everything is initiliazed properly before being used. Thanks for the advice. En/na Patrick Mahan ha escrit: Jordi Moles Blanco presented these words - circa 8/7/08 3:13 AM-> Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big deal, cause the sender gets notified that their mail wasn't delivered and hopefully, they will resend it. However, the problem is that I've tried to debug my script but found nothing wrong at all, cause it only fails from time to time, let's say... once for each 2000 messages that postfix receives, and it appears to do so in a random way. As i said... postfix can fail to deliver a message to one particular mailbox, but if then you resend the very same message to the very same mailbox, it will be delivered. The error is reported in both "maillog" and "messages", like this: **/var/log/maillog Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 postfix/pipe[27534]: 3E1A0143709: to=, relay=quota_postfix, delay=0.23, delays=0.11/0/0/0.11, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with signal 10: "/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix") */var/log/messages*** Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 kernel: pid 29535 (quota_postfix), uid 125: exited on signal 10 Well signal 10 is SIGBUS which is indicative of (generally) a bad address, non-aligned memory address (on platforms it matters) or a hardware error. I would look for places you are dereferencing a pointer without perhaps first validating it. Given that it rarely occurs, I might suspect that you are allocating some memory, but failing to completely initialize (malloc() doesn't zero out memory) it or assuming it is already initialize. Good luck, Patrick Here you have some extra information about the script itself and the master.cf */usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix*** # ls -la /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix -rwsr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 20048 Aug 4 10:18 /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix It's got de suid flag cause it performs a "du" command and other file operations which need permissions, although i've tried with other groups of permissions and it eventually crashes anyway with "signal 10" **master.cf* . # spamfilter spamfilter unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/home/antispam.pl "localhost:10027" "antispam" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "/usr/local/bin/spamc" # from spamfilter to smtpd:10026 localhost:10027 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter=quota_postfix # quota_postfix quota_postfix unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix "localhost" "10028" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "${domain}" # from quota_postfix to smtpd:10028 localhost:10028 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter= So far, any program which crashed would leave a ".core" file in /usr/crash, but this one is not doing the same, so... i can't actually debug from the core file either. Sysctl in my FreeBSD server is ok, but i guess that postfix, somehow is preventing this filter from generating a core file. Is that possible? Or am i completely wrong? How could I, at least, generate the .core file? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10
Hi, i've been trying to debug what you suggested, but no luck so far :( The thing is that i checked out all the calls to arrays, space handling and so on, and i couldn't find anything wrong. After that, i ended up trying the "hard" way, which is to keep a file /tmp/debug.log where the script writes everything that it does. So... the problem was that even in those cases when postfix logged a "signal 10" error, the logs showed that the C script got to the end of the file, it executed every single line, it doesn't get stuck manipulating arrays or anything like that. any idea? Thanks. En/na Jordi Moles Blanco ha escrit: Hi, thanks for the reply, i will have a close look at what you suggested. The thing is that, yes, i work with arrays, pointers, mallocs and so on. I'll try to make sure everything is initiliazed properly before being used. Thanks for the advice. En/na Patrick Mahan ha escrit: Jordi Moles Blanco presented these words - circa 8/7/08 3:13 AM-> Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big deal, cause the sender gets notified that their mail wasn't delivered and hopefully, they will resend it. However, the problem is that I've tried to debug my script but found nothing wrong at all, cause it only fails from time to time, let's say... once for each 2000 messages that postfix receives, and it appears to do so in a random way. As i said... postfix can fail to deliver a message to one particular mailbox, but if then you resend the very same message to the very same mailbox, it will be delivered. The error is reported in both "maillog" and "messages", like this: **/var/log/maillog Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 postfix/pipe[27534]: 3E1A0143709: to=, relay=quota_postfix, delay=0.23, delays=0.11/0/0/0.11, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with signal 10: "/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix") */var/log/messages*** Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 kernel: pid 29535 (quota_postfix), uid 125: exited on signal 10 Well signal 10 is SIGBUS which is indicative of (generally) a bad address, non-aligned memory address (on platforms it matters) or a hardware error. I would look for places you are dereferencing a pointer without perhaps first validating it. Given that it rarely occurs, I might suspect that you are allocating some memory, but failing to completely initialize (malloc() doesn't zero out memory) it or assuming it is already initialize. Good luck, Patrick Here you have some extra information about the script itself and the master.cf */usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix*** # ls -la /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix -rwsr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 20048 Aug 4 10:18 /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix It's got de suid flag cause it performs a "du" command and other file operations which need permissions, although i've tried with other groups of permissions and it eventually crashes anyway with "signal 10" **master.cf* . # spamfilter spamfilter unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/home/antispam.pl "localhost:10027" "antispam" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "/usr/local/bin/spamc" # from spamfilter to smtpd:10026 localhost:10027 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter=quota_postfix # quota_postfix quota_postfix unix- n n - 20 pipe flags=R user=filter argv=/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix "localhost" "10028" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "${domain}" # from quota_postfix to smtpd:10028 localhost:10028 inetn - n - 100 smtpd -o content_filter= So far, any program which crashed would leave a ".core" file in /usr/crash, but this one is not doing the same, so... i can't actually debug from the core file either. Sysctl in my FreeBSD server is ok, but i guess that postfix, somehow is preventing this filter from generating a core file. Is that possible? Or am i completely wrong? How could I, at least, generate the .core file? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"