From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 23:36: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355C937B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1F7aOG86486; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:36:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f1F7aMK86478; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:36:22 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:36:22 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Tim McCullagh Cc: Subject: Re: Installing AMAVIS virus scanner In-Reply-To: <049b01c09715$b7bb80c0$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Tim McCullagh wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed the amavis-perl port on FreeBSD 4.2 ? > > Did it install straight from the ports directory or did you need to > reconfigure it to get it to work? > Straight out of the ports with uvscan and all. The only think that needed fixing was the path to sendmail.cf. > I am trying to install Amavis on a fresh install of Freebsd 4.2 and I have > gone throught the readme's etc and checked my setttings and they all seem > ok. The problem is that as soon as I send a message to the mail server > after killing the PID for sendmail the system repeatedly keeps opening > multiple perl sessions until the server runs out od swap space and sendmail > is killed off Amavis isn't *that* greedy. I suspect it's going into a loop. Normally amavis will process the message and in the second stage resend it to the local server for normal delivery with the original, non-amavis .cf using sendmail's -C flag. This sounds like the second instance of sendmail is running with the wrong .cf and sending the message back to its amavis-enabled self instead of a sendmail instance that would deliver. Given that it's on localhost, that would present you with a zillion processes within a minute. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message