Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:00:13 +1000 From: "Tim McCullagh" <timbo@halenet.com.au> To: "Alex Charalabidis" <alex@wnm.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing AMAVIS virus scanner (looping sendmail + starting multiple perl sessions + running out of swap space) Message-ID: <2bab01c09989$36277a20$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102150115480.33484-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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Hi Alex Thanks for your help. I found that the problem I was having was due to my system not having the libc.so.3 installed. To get around this I installed the compat2.1 2.2 and 3 distributions to my FreeBSD release 4.2 system and that has fixed the problem The libc.so.3 is used by the uvscan Thanks again Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Charalabidis" <alex@wnm.net> To: "Tim McCullagh" <timbo@halenet.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 5:36 Subject: Re: Installing AMAVIS virus scanner 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
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