Joel,
> I've upgraded to amavis-2.3.2 and the latest SpamAssassin from CPAN and
> the issue is still happening but is much less frequent(2-3/day for ~1
> Million emails from 70/day). I was using amavis-2.2.1 and SpamAssassin
> 3.0.1 or 3.0.2. I haven't been able to reproduce the error but I will
> continue to try.
Please try the following safety net around SA. In case of SA blunder,
it should log the problem and terminate the cloned process:
--- amavisd~ Wed Jun 29 12:26:11 2005
+++ amavisd Tue Jul 26 19:05:57 2005
@@ -5912,4 +5912,5 @@
use Errno qw(ENOENT EACCES);
+use POSIX ();
use IO::File ();
# body digest for caching, either SHA1 or MD5
@@ -12541,4 +12542,5 @@
use Errno qw(EAGAIN);
use FileHandle;
+use POSIX ();
use Mail::SpamAssassin;
@@ -12827,5 +12829,5 @@
my($sa_required, $sa_tests);
- my($saved_umask) = umask;
+ my($saved_umask) = umask; my($saved_pid) = $$;
my($remaining_time) = alarm(0); # check how much time is left
eval {
@@ -12884,4 +12886,10 @@
section_time('SA check');
umask($saved_umask); # SA changes umask to 0077
+ if ($$ != $saved_pid) {
+ eval { do_log(-2,"PANIC, SA produced a clone process ".
+ "of [$saved_pid], TERMINATING CLONE [$$]") };
+ POSIX::_exit(1); # avoid END and destructor processing
+ kill('KILL',$$) # still kicking? die!
+ }
prolong_timer('spam_scan_SA', $remaining_time); # restart the timer
if ($@ ne '') { # SA timed out?
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Mark
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