[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang embedded perl stability issues

[Chris Gauch]

The only item of doubt is a rulesdujour script that runs in cron.daily --
this updates a number of my spamassassin rules.  I placed a
"/etc/init.d/mimedefang reread" command in that script so that the
multiplexor reread the configuration after a rules update, I suppose that is
the source of the problems (afterall, the server does deal with a large
volume of email, and is quite underpowered).  I removed the "reread" command
in the script and have re-enabled the embedded interpreter. 

- Chris   

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[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Kevin A.
McGrail
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang embedded perl stability issues

I would check your crontab to see what is running at 5AM.  This sounds more
like the box running out or ram or something.

> A couple weeks ago I opted to use the MIMEDefang embedded perl interpreter
> (by turning on MX_EMBED_PERL=yes in the MD init script), however, I have
> noticed some stability problems when using the embedded interpreter.
Every
> morning at 5am the MD multiplexor essentially craps out, requiring
> MIMEDefang, clamd, and sendmail to be restarted.  I didn't see much in the
> log files indicating what was causing the multiplexor to die off, but I do
> know that the daily CRON jobs run at around 4-5am every night.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.

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