[Mimedefang] MD not clearing up after itself

[Philip Clever]

Yes I've seen it up to 2.28 with Solaris 9.  We upgraded to 2.29 so we'll
see if that fixes it.

-Philip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clayton, Nik [IT]" <nik.clayton at citigroup.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] MD not clearing up after itself


> Caveat -- still using 2.16, until I find the time to package and test a
> more recent version.  So this issue may have gone away by now, although
> by reading the code and the changelogs I don't see how.
>
> MD doesn't always seem to clean up after itself in some cases when it
> exits.  On a busy mailserver we see mdefang-* directories in the spool
> directory that are over a day old.
>
> The hack solution is simple, just run something like this from cron:
>
>     find /var/spool/MIMEDefang -follow -type d -name mdefang-* \
>         -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm -rf
>
> but they shouldn't really be there in the first place.
>
> I've got a couple of untested theories about what might be causing them.
> One is that mimedefang process takes too long to do it's job, so the
> multiplexor kills it, so the stale directories are left hanging around.
> The other is that some messages might be sufficiently complex (either
> innocently, or maliciously) that they cause MD to blow out it's memory
> allocation, and segfault (or similar), and again, the cleanup code doesn't
> get the chance to run.
>
> I realise this is somewhat vague :-)
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
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