Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:11PM +, Nix wrote: >> An interesting technique that allows a program (such as a log writer) >> to run as an unprivileged user, while receiving privileged data. (taken >> almost verbatim from Gerrit Pape's socklog) >> >> #!/bin/sh >> exec > exec 2>&1 >> exec softl

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Nix
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, George Georgalis announced authoritatively: > Here's what I'm doing that is broken. I use tcpserver (functionally > similar to inetd) to receive an incoming smtp connection. While the > smtp session is still open, the message is piped to a temp file which > is then scanned for s

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: > >>> I recall a problem a while

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: >>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from >>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a >>> use

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
falseys rm "$tmp" exit 31 ;; *) # spamc error, echo "$0 error, spamc exit $sce" exit 71 esac exit 81 # Internal bug >If you can reproduce it consistently, *please* report >this to the linux-kernel list! I did, but have had no response to my

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread Nix
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as > root. Has that protected pipe method been extended > since 2.6.8.1? The enti

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: >At 04:40 PM 3/3/2005, George Georgalis wrote: >>This log entry indicates when I booted into 2.6.11: >>2005-03-02 12:05:47.018334500 2005-03-02 17:05:47 [781] i: server killed >>by SIGTERM, shutting down > >Is there any chance you're ru

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:40 PM 3/3/2005, George Georgalis wrote: This log entry indicates when I booted into 2.6.11: 2005-03-02 12:05:47.018334500 2005-03-02 17:05:47 [781] i: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down Is there any chance you're running out of memory and the OOM killer is kicking in and sending SIGTER

a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
Is anyone successfully runing SA on a 2.6.11 linux kernel? >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:16:03 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 >> kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not >> clear exactly where the problem is, seems like

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:16:03 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 >> kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not >> clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa >> but it might be 2.6.11 with daemontools + qmail + >>

problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa but it might be 2.6.11 with daemontools + qmail + QMAIL_QUEUE. I don't really have time to break down an analysis, but I'm fairly certain. If an