Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:11:25 +0200 From: Jordi Moles Blanco <jordi@cdmon.com> To: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10 Message-ID: <489BF19D.1010804@cdmon.com> In-Reply-To: <489B2689.8070209@mahan.org> References: <489ACAB8.7000503@cdmon.com> <489B2689.8070209@mahan.org>
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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=<EMAIL_ACCOUNT>, 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 inet n - 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 inet n - 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.
>>
>>
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