[Mimedefang] Problems with SpamAssassin 3.1 RC1and MIMEDefang

[Nels Lindquist]

Hi thhere.

Having heard good things about the SA 3.1 release candidate, I 
decided to try it out on a couple of servers.

Everything's great as far as detection goes, but I've run into an 
issue with MIMEDefang and I'm wondering if any of you have 
experienced anything similar.  It looks like the multiplexor is 
unable to terminate slaves properly, and in short order there are 
MAX_SLAVES zombie processes, "no free slaves" and all mail is 
tempfailed.

This is what I'm seeing in the logs:

> Aug 22 14:34:17 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[15985]: Slave 4 (pid
> 16186) taking too long to exit; sending SIGTERM 
> Aug 22 14:34:17 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[15985]: Slave 5 (pid
> 16187) taking too long to exit; sending SIGTERM 
> Aug 22 14:34:27 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[15985]: Slave 5 (pid
> 16187) taking way too long to exit; sending SIGKILL 
> Aug 22 14:34:27 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[15985]: Slave 4 (pid
> 16186) taking way too long to exit; sending SIGKILL 

I reverted back to SA 3.04, and everything is running flawlessly.

MIMEDefang 2.49 running on CentOS 3.5 (equivalent to RHEL 3 Update 5)
Embedded perl is enabled.

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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.