Don’t assume it is submission – unless you have a good reason to know you are 
sending emails at those times.  ‘Submission’ only runs when a client connects 
on 587 to send email.  if it is only you then you will know when you are 
sending.  I think it can be imap4, imap4ssl, pop, etc., i.e. the client 
connecting periodically to check for new email.

 

From: Steve Linberg [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 9:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] vchkpw segfaults and spamdyke errors

 

 

On Jun 10, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:

 

I guess I'm confused. Which log file are you getting segfault in?

 

Jeez, sorry, I referenced it incorrectly before. They’re in /var/log/messages, 
NOT /var/log/maillog. :(

 

/var/log/messages:Jun 10 09:51:15 xxx kernel: vchkpw[19152]: segfault at 0 ip 
00007f386f954ad6 sp 00007ffea3855d68 error 4 in 
libc-2.17.so[7f386f822000+1b7000]





Again, though, for what it’s worth, I grepped the date/time of the segfault in 
all of the other files in /var/log and didn’t find any matches. I know the 
qmail logfiles timestamp in a different format until piped through tai64nlocal, 
but I really looked for any other time-based clues in all of the other system 
logfiles and couldn’t find anything happening at or near the same time. Very 
puzzling.

 

So I’m still not clear whether there’s any other way to find out what process 
invoked vchkpw in the above instance (they’re all like that, always in vchkpw). 
I don’t know for sure if I’m softlimiting the right process in qmail 
submission, or if it could be something else, or how to tell.

 

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Silicon Goblin Technologies
http://silicongoblin.com
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