MailScanner Failed

[datah]

Hi,

After last nights upcp now MailScanner keeps failing. I tried running all the commands I read by chirpy that should be run after a upcp and it keeps failing.

Something that I saw that I think is what broke it seems that Perl got upgraded and a couple of modules. I tried removing MailScanner completely and re-installing and it just wont work again!

Someone please help me as I do love MailScanner since it helped me get all my customers rid of spam!

Thanks in advance

 

[AndyReed]

I tried removing MailScanner completely and re-installing and it just wont work again!

Did you, first, stop mailscanner, and then remove it? Are you sure that you completely removed mailscanner, before re-installing a fresh copy? Read this post http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?p=150118 and search this forum for more info on how to remove mailscnner.

 

[datah]

Nothing has worked. I ended up taking MailScanner out since it does not work. I removed it completely, re-installed it, tried everything, it wont work.

 

[kris1351]

We had this problem last night also, have completely uninstalled and reinstalled it and still get MailScanner failed messages at least once every 20 minutes. Out of 10 servers only 1 had the problem is the wonderful part. Whenever MailScanner restarts it gets flooded and then dies a few minutes later, has made for a fun day tracking a gremlin.

PS: We are using Chirpy's MS setup with ClamAV and the MS/MW frontend. All has worked perfectly until last nights update.

 

[datah]

yeah please help I do love MailScanner!

 

[datah]

What is the MS/MW frontend?

If its useful, how can I get a how to on how to install it? Thanks

 

[kris1351]

Chirpy's company has a full frontend to MailScanner that I HIGHLY recommend. It also comes with MailWatch to give you statistics of the spam mails processed by your servers.

 

[chirpy]

The problem (and we're seeing a lot of them) has nothing to do with MailScanner per se. It's because you're not excluding perl updates from your OS providers update utility. There was a recent update to RH based OS's with a new iteration of perl which fixes some security bugs. Most likely this has downgraded your installed version of perl (perhaps v5.8.7) to v5.8.0 which won't contain all the perl modules you need to run many things including MailScanner, cPanel and it will almost definitely break cPanel stats.

Fix is simply:

cd /usr/bin
ls -la perl*

establish which version of perl you should be using:

cp -avf perl5.x.x perl

Check it's correct with:

perl -v

Check that /usr/local/bin/perl is a symlink to /usr/bin/perl.

Then stop and restart MailScanner, cPanel and any other daemons running through the perl interpreter.

 

[datah]

Awesome chirpy thanks!

Do you know how to disable OS Perl updates?

I also wanted to know the cost of your services for the MW/MS frontend.

Thanks!

 

[kris1351]

Put perl* in the exclude list of /etc/yum.conf or the up2date --configure exclude list.

 

[SageBrian]

I also wanted to know the cost of your services for the MW/MS frontend.

Thanks!

Priceless

check the links in chirpy's signature. He gracefully doesn't push his own service. It's us, those who swear by him, that push it.

 

[murugan]

Mailwatch is not updating

As chirpy said, i have changed perl version to 5.8.7 and now mailscanner is running, but the mailwatch is not getting updated.

Anyone can tell me what could be be wrong ?

Thanks,

 

[murugan]

ran the below

/scripts/buildeximconf
/scripts/mailscannerupdate
service exim restart

Still having this issue.

 

[chirpy]

If Mailwatch isn't being updated, do:

ps axf | grep SQL

If that finds MailWatch SQL then kill that process. MailScanner will automatcially start another one when it next processes an email and it ought to start working then.

 

[ntwaddel]

I am using chirpy's installed too, and now all boxes are having problems.

mailscanner failed @ Mon Jan 2 16:53:37 2006. A restart was attempted automagicly.

It runs for a little while then just stops with no errors in the log, so strange

i've ran

/usr/mscpanel/mscheck.pl

but it does not seem to help

 

[ntwaddel]

I even tried completely removing and reinstalling and its still doing it, it just stops running with no errors

im stumped

 

[murugan]

If Mailwatch isn't being updated, do:

ps axf | grep SQL

If that finds MailWatch SQL then kill that process. MailScanner will automatcially start another one when it next processes an email and it ought to start working then.

The output is

[email protected] [~]# ps axf | grep SQL
22100 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ grep SQL
[email protected] [~]#

 

[murugan]

Still Mailwatch is not updating.

Anyone got a solution ?

If so please update me.

Thanks

 

[ntwaddel]

I am using chirpy's installed too, and now all boxes are having problems.

mailscanner failed @ Mon Jan 2 16:53:37 2006. A restart was attempted automagicly.

It runs for a little while then just stops with no errors in the log, so strange

i've ran

/usr/mscpanel/mscheck.pl

but it does not seem to help

well i fixed my problem, i ran the debug and i kept getting

Ignore errors about failing to find EOCD signature
Usage: Cwd::getcwd() at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/File/Path.pm line 267.

So i went to line 267

and changed

my $oldpwd = &Cwd::getcwd;
$oldpwd or do {

to

my $oldpwd = getcwd or do {


no problems so far

 

[chirpy]

Those are the symptoms of the perl issue I posted about above.