On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote:
Derek Jennings wrote:
tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer.
Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but
DB errors (Berkeley database) ... my POPFile spam program uses Berkeley,
and I'm assuming that one of the recent perl or other updates broke
something my version of POPFile uses.
Hmm - I was about to run updates today, but I'd hate to be without my PopFile. I've had this address long enough to have a fair bit of spam. I wonder how best to tackle this? Perhaps taking the errors back to the PopFile mailing list might be a good idea. At least they'd know what would give rise to such errors and give guidance. They're a very helpful lot.
Well, I'm running a Cooker box, so it possibly wouldn't affect you anyway unless it was a security update or one to your flavor of ML. But, I think I spoke too soon as to the source of the problem. After shutting down POPFile I saw that the logs were still growing fairly quickly, and another look showed that I was getting a lot of imap errors ... I don't use imap. I /think/ (and I use that term very loosely :-) that one of the recent updates turned on cyrus-imapd whereas it hadn't been on before. On a lark, I shut it down and stopped it from starting at boot, then re-enabled POPFile and -- so far -- no more errors, so it would appear that I was amiss when I fingered the Berekely database itself; rather, it apparently had something to do with imap and, presumably, that daemon.
In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept in, but apparently not.
I've been running this Cooker box for the past year, give or take, and for the most part it's been no problem at all, but every once in awhile it hands me a little surprise :-); I think this may have been one of those times, though I'm not sure yet.
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