Jostein, > Recently I've seen my logs fill up with the following enteries: > > 616492 Mar 31 17:41:01 tellus amavis[10539]: (10539-05) (!)NOTICE: > Skipping bad output from file(1) at [0, p001], got: /etc/magic, 211: > Warning: string exten > sion `B' invalid > 616493 Mar 31 17:41:01 tellus amavis[10539]: (10539-05) (!)NOTICE: > Skipping bad output from file(1) at [0, p001], got: /etc/magic, 321: > Warning: string exten sion `B' invalid > [...] > I'm running amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625) under Debian 6.0.1 with the > «squeeze-updates» repo for the new amavis/spamassissin packages. Now, > amavis works, but with the volume of mails I receive on the server in > queestion, the above output clogs up the logs quite badly. > > Now what does the above mean? Is it attachments to mails that are > malformed, or is the file /etc/magic that f00bar or something else?
It is either the file(1)'s magic database that is screwed, or the file(1) program itself. Try it from a command line, you should be able to see the same warnings. Reinstall or upgrade the file(1) utility, or complain to your packager. Mark
