At 10.56 03/09/2006, you wrote:
Hi all
Some help please
We are running a mail server at one of our clients and have picked up
the following error when using squirrel mail.
Sep 3 10:44:41 mail imapd: LOGIN FAILED, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
ip=[127.0.0.1]
Sep 3 10:44:41 mail authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has
gone away
Sep 3 10:44:46 mail imapd: LOGOUT, ip=[127.0.0.1], rcvd=52, sent=332
we are running the following
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25_3
courier-authlib-base-0.58_2
courier-authlib-vchkpw-0.58_2
courier-imap-4.1.0,1 IMAP
qmail
freebsd 6.1
Last versions of MySQL now have a general timeout on the connection.
You should patch vpopmail with the following patch, and recompile all
(vpopmail, courier-authlib) in order to solve the problem.
This patch should be also in latest vpopmail release (if I remember fine).
See following message and attached patch:
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:05:09 -0400
From: Ron Gage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3)
Subject: [vchkpw] [bug][patch] - vchkpw/vmysql and Mysql 5
Greetings:
I don't know if anyone in here is encountering this problem (yet), but it has
been affecting me for the past few weeks - ever since I upgraded my MySQL
server to 5.0.19. It took quite a bit of digging, but I believe I have found
the problem.
To describe the problem: when you run vpopmail in MySQL mode, with
courier-authdaemond and MySQL v5.0 or later, you will find that for the first 8
hours, everything works just fine, but after 8 hours, nobody will be able to
authenticate to the email server and you will see MySQL server has gone away
errors in the maillog.
The cause of the problem is that in MySQL 5.0 (and probably some 4.1 releases),
MySQL implements a new timeout definition for connections, a timeout that
ignores traffic. This timeout will shut down the socket thread from the MySQL
side. The problem is that the client (vchkpw and friends) do not
know/understand about this timeout and socket termination so they continue on
in ignorate bliss until they try to send to the socket and find that it's no
longer valid - literally the server has gone away.
The fix is to simply destroy the internal flags and file handles
related to that
socket, rebuild a new one, and try again.
The included patch (inline and attached) implements this fix. Please note that
there doesn't appear to be any way at this time to disable the timeout feature
in MySQL.
Please feel free to comment, tear apart, beat up, or otherwise rip to
shreads my
fix!
--
Ron Gage
(LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+)
Westland, Michigan
--- vmysql.c~ 2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
+++ vmysql.c2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
@@ -465,7 +465,31 @@
);
if (mysql_query(mysql_read,SqlBufRead)) {
fprintf(stderr, vmysql: sql error[3]: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql_read));
-return(NULL);
+/* Ron Gage - May 29, 2006 - With newer versions of MySQL, there is
such a thing
+as a connection timeout regardless of activity. By default
under MySQL
5, this
+timeout is 28800 seconds (8 hours). If your vpopmail system runs fine
for the
+first 8 hours, then stops authenticating, this timeout is your problem
(especially
+under authdaemond).
+
+What this code does is when an error is encountered, it first tries to
drop and
+rebuild a connection to the SQL server and tries again. If
this second
attempt
+fails, then something other than the connection timeout is
the problem.
This fix
+need to be implemented in other places but in my setup
(Slackware 10.2,
netqmail,
+vpopmail, courier-authdaemond, courier-imapd and a few
others), this is
always where
+the auth attempt died with a SQL server has gone away error.
+*/
+
+fprintf(stderr, Attempting to rebuild connection to SQL server\n);
+vclose();
+verrori = 0;
+if ( (err=vauth_open_read()) != 0 ) {
+ verrori = err;
+ return(NULL);
+}
+if (mysql_query(mysql_read, SqlBufRead)) {
+ fprintf (stderr, vmysql: connection rebuild failed: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql_read));
+ return(NULL);
+}
}
if (!(res_read = mysql_store_result(mysql_read))) {
--- vmysql.c~ 2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
+++ vmysql.c2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
@@ -465,7 +465,31 @@
);
if (mysql_query(mysql_read,SqlBufRead)) {
fprintf(stderr, vmysql: sql error[3]: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql_read));
-return(NULL);
+/* Ron Gage - May 29, 2006 - With newer versions of MySQL, there is
such a thing
+as a connection timeout regardless of activity. By default under
MySQL 5, this
+timeout is 28800 seconds (8 hours). If your vpopmail system runs fine
for the
+first 8 hours, then stops authenticating, this timeout is your problem
(especially
+under authdaemond).
+
