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Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:47 pm
by DarkF@der
Hello,
i did aa update qmail-scanner but it broked the mail:
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root 6568 0.2 0.0 106560 9248 ? S 20:45 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/psmon --daemon --cron
qscand 9835 0.2 0.0 105492 8720 ? S 20:48 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9869 0.0 0.0 105492 7124 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9870 0.2 0.0 50396 8660 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9891 0.0 0.0 50396 7116 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9892 0.3 0.0 50364 8664 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9905 0.0 0.0 50364 7120 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 9906 0.3 0.0 50380 8668 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 10271 0.0 0.0 50380 7124 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 10272 0.3 0.0 50520 8748 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 10280 0.0 0.0 50520 7208 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
qscand 10281 0.3 0.0 50516 8748 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.p
qscand 10289 0.0 0.0 50516 7208 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-que
qscand 10290 0.3 0.0 50484 8748 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner
qscand 10299 0.0 0.0 50484 7204 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-sca
qscand 10300 0.3 0.0 50516 8752 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail
qscand 10310 0.0 0.0 50516 7208 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/q
qscand 10311 0.3 0.0 50488 8752 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/b
qscand 10319 0.0 0.0 50488 7208 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qma
qscand 10320 0.4 0.0 50480 8748 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var
qscand 10328 0.0 0.0 50480 7204 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3/
qscand 10329 0.5 0.0 50512 8752 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/f
qscand 10338 0.0 0.0 50512 7208 ? S 20:48 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -T
if i don't remove qmail scanner my server will be broke and need a reboot
Any solotion because i had removed my qmail scanner my mail isn't working anymore
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 1:15 pm
by nobody
Ok first of all....
I have the same problem. Ever since I installed qmail scanner I can't remove it.
If you remove it it breaks the qmail mailserver and whatever you do it wont fix. I did anything you can imagine.
So you are one more hostage of the qmail scanner. Reinstall it and workaround with the qmail scanner config file. I disabled one or two things and I got it running normally ...
Also just today I had to update it because together with clamd it took all the resources of the system causing a load of 88 yes that is correct 88 and everything went down. I had to login using serial console to kill the damn proccesses of perl used by qscand.
Now things have gone back to normal. I hope I don't have a problem again.
I regret the day and the moment I installed the damn thing.
I also asked from scott and mike on an older post to tell me a way of uninstalling this thing without breaking the mailserver but they didn't get back to me.
I think this programm is even worse than microsoft windows
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:43 pm
by scott
That would be: yum remove qmail-scanner. And if that doesn't work I'd need to know what the error is.
Remember: 100% of the bugs that go unreported, go unfixed.
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:52 pm
by mikeshinn
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:33 am
by nobody
Mike I have seen this wiki. But thanks anyway for your reply on this issue.
scott wrote:That would be: yum remove qmail-scanner. And if that doesn't work I'd need to know what the error is.
Remember: 100% of the bugs that go unreported, go unfixed.
Hi Scott.
Thanks for replying. I had a ticket opened in the past about that.
If I uninstall the qmail scanner then the mailserver will not send emails from web, will not accept connections to smtp and generally it generates many errors and goes bad.
I can give you access if you want to take a look at it as well. I am afraid to attempt to uninstall it again because last time it caused me a chaos.
Maybe qmail scanner is a good app since it scans the emails but I feel it needs in our cases further documentation and search in what happens and conflicts with plesk.
Generally it is annoying that all servers by default send dozens of emails with errors every day especially with the emails.
I get all kinds of error about the email queue, spamassassin, qmail scanner. My own boxes are spamming me !
I never even understood why this errors occur and I am sure I am not the only one having these errors. Anyone who has plesk and asl installed together surely gets these errors.
While if the system has no plesk installed and ASL no errors !
We know asl rules. And we know plesk has very deep issues with its own existense.
If you could help us manage, solve some minor problems like this which are lying around for a heck of a long time it would have been awesome.
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 9:39 am
by scott
So what kind of error message do you get when you remove it?
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 11:32 am
by DarkF@der
I had to remove qmail scanner and reinstalled gmail after that i did a upgrade again and it seems to be ok!
The only thing is before the update everything was ok after the update i have to to reinstall qmail and qmailscanner.
That's not how i like to see a update
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 11:49 am
by scott
Have you got any kind of error message from qmail I can see? This isn't much to go on at this point
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:57 pm
by nobody
scott wrote:Have you got any kind of error message from qmail I can see? This isn't much to go on at this point
Its been almost a year. If I remember correctly when I removed qmail scanner you couldnt send messages and there was a queue write error or something like that. The same problem was existing both for webmails which would return failure and the error was shown when you were trying to send an email through outlook.
Uninstalling and reinstalling qmail didnt fix the problem. Neither fixing all permissions of qmail. Neither swapping to postfix and back to qmail. Nothing fixed the problem. I was trying for 2 days to find a solution back then.
Also it was checking mime types which caused almost all mails not to be able to be sent and marked them as bad but i disabled this from the conf and solved that problem.
Finally its been a year in which there are around 20-30 emails from ossec per day with hundreds of error lines some examples are :
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1.X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [server13064229417983625] mail server permanently rejected message. (#5.3.0) - Illegal seek
2.X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [server13064229557983647] Unable to close pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig [61] (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek
3. spamd[2868]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /var/qmail/mailnames///.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.plesk.javing.eu.2868 for /var/qmail/mailnames///.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:24 pm
by spaceout
nobody wrote:
Its been almost a year. If I remember correctly when I removed qmail scanner you couldnt send messages and there was a queue write error or something like that. The same problem was existing both for webmails which would return failure and the error was shown when you were trying to send an email through outlook.
I also experienced a similar problem trying to uninstall qmail-scanner. Unfortunately, it was always over a year ago now so I don't have anything specific.
The difference for me, was that switching to Postfix and then back to Qmail fixed my problem.
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 6:01 pm
by mikeshinn
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2.X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [server13064229557983647] Unable to close pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig [61] (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek
Did you check to make sure this wasnt a Plesk included condition? I distinctly recall a Parallels update that caused this many years ago.
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 9:42 am
by scott
Yeah I know for a fact the Illegal Seek error message is coming from the plesk handler system, qmail-scanner is just in a place to report the message.
Re: Update qmail-scanner brokes the mail
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 12:44 pm
by nobody
mikeshinn wrote:Code: Select all
2.X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [server13064229557983647] Unable to close pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig [61] (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek
Did you check to make sure this wasnt a Plesk included condition? I distinctly recall a Parallels update that caused this many years ago.
scott wrote:Yeah I know for a fact the Illegal Seek error message is coming from the plesk handler system, qmail-scanner is just in a place to report the message.
Thanks for the replies once again.
Well I tried about 2 or 3 patches parallels dispatched which were supposed to fix such errors that I experience. I downloaded a different queue file and changed it with the original according to the patches and instructions.
Offcourse as I said I don't actually remember which ones I tried but again this didn't resolve my problem.
Thank god I had the original queue file since parallels patches wouldn't do anything more than totally destructing the mail server.
spaceout wrote:
I also experienced a similar problem trying to uninstall qmail-scanner. Unfortunately, it was always over a year ago now so I don't have anything specific.
The difference for me, was that switching to Postfix and then back to Qmail fixed my problem.
Weird. I tried this switching at least 5 times. I was in a paranoid state of mind back then.
Ahmmm ... Were you back then using greylisting ?
I had greylisting enabled before even installing the qmail scanner.