[Mimedefang] Perl problems with Mimedefang 2.1 on Solaris 6 : Perl process did not finish

[Stephane Lentz]

The problem is really strange : 
- libmilter was installed correctly (in /usr/lib by default when doing
the ./Build install).
- the truss gave no hint : just some 
mkdir("/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-7-3", 0700) Err#17 EEXIST

BTW I'm not using the multiplexor yet. I'm just doing some tests 
with the most basic set-up. 

I'm going to give the last beta a try. 
I've noticed that perl-5.6.1 is available as a package on
Sunfreeware. Better go perl 5.6.1 too ? 

Stephane.


On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:43:10PM -0600, Fox, Randy wrote:
> I had similar problems on my Solaris 6 systems.  While you're building
> sendmail, make sure you also build libmilter, then recopy libmilter.a to
> /usr/local/lib/sendmail.  The only other issue I had was resolved by using
> the multiplexor to make sure the system didn't run out of memory by
> launching too many Perl instances.
> 
> Randy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Lentz [mailto:Stephane.Lentz at ansf.alcatel.fr]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:50 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: [Mimedefang] Perl problems with Mimedefang 2.1 on Solaris 6 :
> Perl process did not finish
> 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I've installed sendmail 8.12.1 with Milter support and MimeDefang 2.1 on
> a Solaris 2.6 system.
> 
> I use the "Suggested minimum-protection filter for Microsoft Windows
> clients" but when I send a test message with some.exe  attachment 
> the message is not "filtered" : it passes through and only 2
> Mimedefang Warning headers gets added :
> 
> Dec  3 11:58:10 nsfws5 sendmail[28703]: fB3Aw9gA028703: Milter add:
> header: X-MIMEDefang-Warning: Perl process did not finish
> Dec  3 11:58:10 nsfws5 sendmail[28703]: fB3Aw9gA028703: Milter add:
> header: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com
> slash mimedefang)
> 
> 
> It seems that the source of the problems is the "Perl process did not
> finish" message (coming from mimedefang.c when the UNFINISHED file 
> was not removed).
>  ....