[Mimedefang] mimedefang fails to start upon reboot

[jef moskot]

This is regarding the mimedefang-2.67 port on FreeBSD 7.1

The problem leaves this evidence in /var/log/maillog

Nov  7 23:45:30 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Starting slave 1 (pid 1238) (1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Nov  7 23:45:30 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 stderr: Out of memory during request for 4088 bytes, total sbrk() is 9553920 bytes!
Nov  7 23:45:30 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 stderr: Out of memory during request for 48 bytes, total sbrk() is 9553920 bytes!
Nov  7 23:45:30 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Reap: slave 1 (pid 1238) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Nov  7 23:45:30 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 resource usage: req=0, scans=0, user=0.092, sys=0.056, nswap=0, majflt=0, minflt=3101, maxrss=13432, bi=5, bo=18
Nov  7 23:45:33 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Starting slave 1 (pid 1246) (1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Nov  7 23:45:33 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 stderr: Out of memory during request for 4088 bytes, total sbrk() is 9553920 bytes!
Nov  7 23:45:33 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 stderr: Out of memory during request for 48 bytes, total sbrk() is 9553920 bytes!
Nov  7 23:45:33 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Reap: slave 1 (pid 1246) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Nov  7 23:45:33 phantom mimedefang-multiplexor[936]: Slave 1 resource usage: req=0, scans=0, user=0.096, sys=0.051, nswap=0, majflt=0, minflt=3101, maxrss=13356, bi=5, bo=18

This sounds similar to an old problem I read about, and it took a long 
time for the port to get upgraded, so I haven't mentioned it until now, 
since I just recently upgraded.  I thought 2.67 might fix the issue.

The solution had been to do a "mimedefang.sh stop", wait around five 
seconds, then do a "mimedefang.sh start".  A restart didn't cut it.

The delay didn't seem to be an issue after the update, so that problem 
might be solved, but the real issue is mimedefang not ramping up on 
reboot.

I'm guessing something is trying to start before something else is ready, 
but I'm pretty clueless past that.

Any suggestions?

Jeffrey Moskot
System Administrator
jef at math.miami.edu