Bradley, > I downgraded both file and libmagic1 and had the same problem. However, > thanks to your subsequent email, I did get a lot better data from amavisd. > http://www.tux.org/~storm/files/amavisd.log
Thanks, that is more helpful. It sounds like a known PerlIO bug: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39060 Could it be that your file(1) utility forgets to terminate the last line of its output by a newline? Would you please apply the following change to your 2.4.1, which will make the debug log to show whether a line read from file(1) did have a trailing \n or not: --- amavisd.orig Mon Jun 19 15:51:00 2006 +++ amavisd Tue Nov 14 18:41:56 2006 @@ -15177,6 +15177,6 @@ my($index)=0; my($ln); for ($! = 0; defined($ln=$proc_fh->getline); $! = 0) { - chomp($ln); do_log(5, "result line from file(1): %s", $ln); + chomp($ln); if ($index > $#file_list) { do_log(-1, "NOTICE: Skipping extra output from file(1): %s", $ln); and repeat your experiment. I'm only interested in (all) debug lines containing text (without quotes): "result line from file(1):" Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.net email is sponsored by: A Better Job is Waiting for You - Find it Now. Check out Slashdot's new job board. Browse through tons of technical jobs posted by companies looking to hire people just like you. http://jobs.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
