[Mimedefang] Have you see this before???

Link, Pete plink at fna.com
Mon Oct 21 14:28:00 EDT 2002


> I am experiencing the following error messages and am not sure how to
> solve them:
> 
> 1.  I tried the following:
> 		Cd /usr/local/bin
> 		chown defang:defang mimedefang-multiplexor
> 		chown defang:defang mimedefang
> That does not seem to solve my problem w/ the WARNING Message Below.  Not
> sure how to solve this.
> 
> 2.  It appears that the mimedefang-multiplexor process is dying after it
> is exectured for the first time.  Not sure how to solve this.
> 
> 3.  I check the scripts for correctness:
> [root at mail2 mail]# cd /usr/local/bin
> [root at mail2 bin]# ls -l
> total 200
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 defang   defang      46156 Oct 14 12:05 mimedefang
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 defang   defang      31148 Oct 14 12:05
> mimedefang-multiplexor
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       115921 Oct 14 12:05 mimedefang.pl
> [root at mail2 bin]#
> [root at mail2 bin]#
> [root at mail2 bin]# ./mimedefang-multiplexor -l
> WARNING: You are running mimedefang-multiplexor as root.
> Future versions of MIMEDefang may refuse to run as root.
> 
> 4.  I checked the perl scripts for correctness:
> Cd /etc/mail/
> [root at mail2 mail]# mimedefang.pl -test
> Filter /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter seems syntactically correct.
> 
> cat /var/log/maillog | grep ERR
> Oct 18 15:38:59 mail2 mimedefang[8283]: Error from multiplexor: ERR Filter
> timed out - check filter rules or system load
> Oct 18 15:42:27 mail2 mimedefang[8290]: Error from multiplexor: ERR Filter
> timed out - system may be overloaded (consider increasing busy timeout)
> 
> cat /var/log/maillog | grep mimedefang-multiplexor
> Oct 18 15:42:36 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
> check your filter rules and use the '-l' flag on mimedefang-multiplexor to
> see Perl error messages
> Oct 18 15:42:49 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
> check your filter rules and use the '-l' flag on mimedefang-multiplexor to
> see Perl error messages
> Oct 18 15:42:54 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
> check your filter rules and use the '-l' flag on mimedefang-multiplexor to
> see Perl error messages
> Oct 18 15:43:05 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
> check your filter rules and use the '-l' flag on mimedefang-multiplexor to
> see Perl error messages
> Oct 18 15:43:09 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
> check your filter rules and use the '-l' flag on mimedefang-multiplexor to
> see Perl error messages
> Oct 18 15:55:55 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: WARNING: You are running
> mimedefang-multiplexor as root.  Future versions of MIMEDefang may refuse
> to run as root.
> Oct 18 15:55:55 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: started; minSlaves=0,
> maxSlaves=2, maxRequests=100, maxIdleTime=300, busyTimeout=120,
> clientTimeout=10
> Oct 18 15:56:13 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: WARNING: You are running
> mimedefang-multiplexor as root.  Future versions of MIMEDefang may refuse
> to run as root.
> Oct 18 15:56:13 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: started; minSlaves=0,
> maxSlaves=2, maxRequests=100, maxIdleTime=300, busyTimeout=120,
> clientTimeout=10
> Oct 18 15:56:41 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Received SIGTERM: Killing
> slaves and terminating
> Oct 18 15:56:41 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: Received SIGTERM: Killing
> slaves and terminating
> Oct 18 15:56:52 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: WARNING: You are running
> mimedefang-multiplexor as root.  Future versions of MIMEDefang may refuse
> to run as root.
> Oct 18 15:56:52 mail2 mimedefang-multiplexor: started; minSlaves=0,
> maxSlaves=2, maxRequests=100, maxIdleTime=300, busyTimeout=120,
> clientTimeout=10
> 



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