Re: [Mimedefang] Syslog problems on Solaris 8?

2006-03-20 Thread John Nemeth
On Jul 6, 10:48am, Fernando Gleiser wrote: } } I've installed mimedefang-2.56 from source on a Solaris 8 system. } Perl's version is 5.6.1 from sunfreeware. } } It seems to be working fine, except for one little detail: it doesn't } log anything to syslog. the md_graphdefang_log_enable('mail', 1);

Re: [Mimedefang] Syslog problems on Solaris 8?

2006-03-20 Thread Roland Pope
- Original Message - From: "Fernando Gleiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've installed mimedefang-2.56 from source on a Solaris 8 system. Perl's version is 5.6.1 from sunfreeware. It seems to be working fine, except for one little detail: it doesn't log anything to syslog. the md_graphdefang

[Mimedefang] Syslog problems on Solaris 8?

2006-03-20 Thread Fernando Gleiser
I've installed mimedefang-2.56 from source on a Solaris 8 system. Perl's version is 5.6.1 from sunfreeware. It seems to be working fine, except for one little detail: it doesn't log anything to syslog. the md_graphdefang_log_enable('mail', 1); line in mimedefan-filter is enabled and syslogd is ru

Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines

2006-03-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Kevin, Du meintest am 20.03.06 zum Thema Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines: >> Mar 18 17:16:51 Arktur mimedefang.pl[32460]: Problem running virus >> scanner: code=0.0234375, category=swerr, action=tempfail > It's an error with your virus scanner. What virus scanner are you > using?

Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines

2006-03-20 Thread -ray
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Helmut Hullen wrote: "BitDefender". And there seems to be an error; "BitDefender" tells "glibc detected *** double free or corruption". What OS? Newer versions of glibc (ie in Fedora) do extra sanity checking on memory access. You can control it with the MALLOC_CHECK_ e

Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines

2006-03-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Kevin, Du meintest am 20.03.06 zum Thema Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines: >> Mar 18 17:16:51 Arktur mimedefang.pl[32460]: Problem running virus >> scanner: code=0.0234375, category=swerr, action=tempfail >> What does that mean? >> What does "code=0.0234375" mean? > It's an error

Re: [Mimedefang] Slave numbers [was: MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away]

2006-03-20 Thread David F. Skoll
Paul Murphy wrote: >>You may consider cutting back to two slaves to save system >>memory. You certainly don't need 5 slaves with this mail load. > Ah, but I do, because the mail pattern is such that I tend to get mail in > bursts on a regular basis, where 4-5 slaves are busy for a couple of min

RE: [Mimedefang] Slave numbers [was: MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away]

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Murphy
Schu, >> I have a small system at home using 5 slaves and which receives about 120 > > connections per day, almost all of which are between 0700 and 2300, so some > > of the slaves will be idle for longer than 8 hours overnight. > > > > You may consider cutting back to two slaves to save system

Re: [Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Paul Murphy wrote: > > Note that this only happens on very low volume servers or where you have many > more slaves than you actually need - if each of your slaves can be guaranteed > to process one connection every 8 hours, you'll never see this! In my case, > I have a small system at home using

Re: [Mimedefang] error on some machines

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
It's an error with your virus scanner. What virus scanner are you using? KAM > Mar 18 17:16:51 Arktur mimedefang.pl[32460]: Problem running virus > scanner: code=0.0234375, category=swerr, action=tempfail > What does that mean? > What does "code=0.0234375" mean? > > Where shall I search for

[Mimedefang] error on some machines

2006-03-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I have installed "mimedefang" on 4 servers (Slackware 10.2). On 2 of them it works fine. One of them tells in "/var/log/mail" Mar 18 17:15:49 Arktur sendmail[32496]: starting daemon (8.13.5): SMTP (Mail from "root" sent to "postmaster") Mar 18 17:16:38 Arktur sendmail[32503]: k2IGGcE

Re: [Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread David F. Skoll
Damrose, Mark wrote: > What about doing a query in filter_tick every 2 hours? That won't work, because you have no idea which slave runs filter_tick. Much better to fix the broken MySQL behaviour; there's no reason to shut down a TCP connection just because it's idle. You also should (as Jan Co

RE: [Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread Damrose, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Murphy > I've finally found what I think is the cause of the problem - > MySQL drops idle client connections if nothing has been heard > from them in 8 hours (28800 seconds). What about doing a query in filter_tick every 2 hours? _

RE: [Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Murphy
> Your software will probably become a lot more robust if you solve > this problem in MIMEDefang, by testing the database handle before > using it. The problem with this approach is that the test has to identify that the handle is stale, close it, and then re-open it again - and all outside of "

Re: [Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:19:58PM -, Paul Murphy wrote: > I've finally found what I think is the cause of the problem - MySQL drops > idle client connections if nothing has been heard from them in 8 hours (28800 > seconds). This is controlled by the wait_timeout system variable, which can [..

[Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Murphy
Hi, Over the last couple of years, I've been using the MySQL version of greylisting with an excellent level of impact on incoming spam. However, as I reported before, my slaves were dying occasionally: > Paul Murphy pmurphy at ionixpharma.com > Fri Apr 8 06:12:19 EDT 2005 > I've been getting p