[Mimedefang] mimedefang-2.45 and dual opteron

[Bill Maidment]

alan premselaar wrote:
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> 
> 
> Bill,
> 
>   I've been installing a new machine with MD 2.45, SA 3.0 and clamav 
> 0.75.1 and it was working fine until I added some greylisting code. then 
> it did the same thing.
> 
> it turns out that for some reason it was choking on my "use strict;" 
> line.  more specifically it was complaining (during debugging) about 
> calls to non-existant subroutines "main::sub_routine_name" which 
> actually did exist.
> 
> I must have beat my head against the wall for 2 hours debugging this.
> I reverted to a previous version of the filter and it started working 
> again as expected, so i stepped thru changes, etc and finally once I 
> removed the use strict; line with all my code changes, everything 
> started to work. (i still need to figure out why that was happening)
> 
> anyways, the point (i think) is... check the little things and make sure 
> you don't have something really little and really obvious taunting you 
> and causing you problems.
> 
> in my case, it was get as far as you show in your log and then the slave 
> would timeout and die and tempfail.
> 
> anyways, probably not much help, but thought i'd share.
> 


Thanks, very much, Alan
I'll check that out. Another area I'm looking at is SELinux (I'm on 
FC3-test1) It seems that when you switch off SELinux after installing, 
then any changes can cause all sorts of problems.

Anyway you've given me hope that it's something simple.



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