Hello,
I've noticed a server of mine becoming unresponsive over the network,
forcing me to reset the power to it on several occasions per week for
the last 3 weeks. A couple of times I was unable to get to a computer
to restart it quickly, and I found these entries in /var/log/maillog.
Jan 21 16:51:35 w2 spamd[26821]: Use of uninitialized value in
concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/ve
ndor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 269.
Jan 21 16:51:35 w2 spamd[26821]: prefork: select returned error on
server filehandle:
Jan 21 20:49:47 w2 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc17 starting up
Jan 24 17:01:52 w2 spamd[2021]: Use of uninitialized value in
concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/ven
dor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 269.
Jan 24 17:01:52 w2 spamd[2021]: prefork: select returned error on
server filehandle:
Jan 24 21:17:37 w2 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc17 starting up
It looks to me like spamd was the last process before both crashes,
there are no other syslog entries after the prefork messages until
system restart. The system is running Fedora Core 5 with current
updates. I just recompiled the DB_File and BerkleyDB perl modules
tonight, hoping that might resolve the issue. Here's some more info
that might be of help:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] awstats]# ps aux | grep -P "spam|amavis|sendmail"
root 29408 0.1 1.4 34036 29660 ? Ss 03:18 0:02 /usr/
bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
root 29431 0.0 0.1 8548 2496 ? Ss 03:18 0:00
sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp 29441 0.0 0.0 7372 1712 ? Ss 03:18 0:00
sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root 29444 0.3 1.6 38656 34212 ? S 03:18 0:04
spamd child
root 29445 0.0 1.3 34036 27824 ? S 03:18 0:00
spamd child
amavis 29465 0.1 2.4 61904 50208 ? Ss 03:19 0:02
amavisd (master)
amavis 29470 0.0 2.3 62640 49284 ? S 03:19 0:00
amavisd (virgin child)
amavis 29471 0.0 2.3 62640 49276 ? S 03:19 0:00
amavisd (virgin child)
root 31402 0.0 0.1 8576 3016 ? S 03:42 0:00
sendmail: l0R8gqtE031402 dsl-189-158-88-192.prod-infinitum.com.mx
[189.158.88.192] (may be forged): RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] awstats]# rpm -q spamassassin sendmail amavisd-new pyzor
spamassassin-3.1.7-5.fc5
sendmail-8.13.8-1.fc5
amavisd-new-2.4.4-2.fc5
pyzor-0.4.0-10.fc5
cpan> i Mail::SpamAssassin
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:26:33 GMT
Strange distribution name [Mail::SpamAssassin]
Module id = Mail::SpamAssassin
DESCRIPTION identify spam mail using text analysis
CPAN_USERID JMASON (Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
CPAN_VERSION 3.001007
CPAN_FILE J/JM/JMASON/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7.tar.gz
DSLI_STATUS MmpO (mature,mailing-list,perl,object-oriented)
MANPAGE Mail::SpamAssassin - Spam detector and markup engine
INST_FILE /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm
INST_VERSION 3.001007
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Troy
