On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Dale Qualls wrote:

> Well, we attempted to replace our mailserver this weekend but had to
> revert back to the older one due to a filter issue that didn't make
> much sense to me.
>
> Original setup:
> RH8
> XMail 1.22
> f-prot (using a modified clamav filter)
> SA 3.0.2 (using bsa_filter which is a version of Don's sa_filter that was
> modified by Beau Cox)
>
> Everything runs fine on this config.
>
> I built a new Suse 10 box, installed xMail 1.22 on it then moved over
> my /var/MailRoot folder from the old box.
> This box is running SA 3.0.4 instead of 3.0.2 and I now receive filter
> errors on the bsa_filter.
>
> It also doesn't appear that xMail starts up all 20 of its threads.
> pstree -p only shows a single xMail entry (but it does show the 5
> spamd threads).
>
> All I could find on the 'net had to do with possible timeout erros
> (apparently this is what the -97 means).
>
> spamd is running but it almost seems like SA isn't answering when it's
> called by the filter.
>
> Any thoughts off the top of your heads?
>
> I can't easily test it as we didnt' have a replacement server (we just
> yanked the original drive and put this a new one in for the install so
> we could easily fall back in case of a failure such as this).
>
> For grins I was going to bump up the SA version on the RH box to 3.0.4
> to see if it caused the same problems but figured I'd post a quick
> question first.

The error -97 is ERR_FORK. It means you there  are too many running 
processes, or the system was unable to exec your filter. Did you specify 
the full path to the filter binary?


- Davide


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