[Mimedefang] Desparate for help

Link, Pete plink at fna.com
Tue Oct 22 12:52:00 EDT 2002


	I don't mean to sound desperate, but I am since I am making no
progress.

	1.  It appears that the mimedefang-multiplexor process is dying
after it is exectured for the first time when it executes the 1st SPAM Mail.
Not sure how to solve this.

	This is what I did:
> 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.
> 
	This is what I see in the Maillog:
	I kept increasing the BUSY TIMEOUT for MIMEDEFANG; however nothing
seems to help.

> 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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