MIMEDefang not starting on reboot

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Wed Jul 7 02:42:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 08:35:28AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Does anyone else see this?
> I have 2 (of 2) amd64 8.x systems which don't start MIMEDefang on reboot properly, I get this..
> 
> Jul  7 06:34:58 cain mimedefang-multiplexor[1747]: Starting slave 3 (pid 41198) (1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
> Jul  7 06:34:58 cain mimedefang-multiplexor[1747]: Slave 3 stderr: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/mach/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module File::Glob: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/mach/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so: mmap of entire address space failed: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/mach/XSLoader.pm line 70.  at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/mach/File/Glob.pm line 96 Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3239. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3239.
> 
> Restarting it manually (ie /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh restart) after a reboot fixes it..
> 
> Also I think it would be nice if this patch were added to the port..
> 
> --- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh-dist      2010-04-07 10:30:46.586067014 +0930
> +++ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh   2010-05-01 13:47:47.340517685 +0930
> @@ -316,7 +319,7 @@
>    rm -f $MX_SOCKET > /dev/null 2>&1
>    rm -f $SOCKET > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> -    if [ "$1" = "wait" ] ; then
> +    if [ "wait" = "wait" ] ; then
>       printf "Waiting for daemons to exit."
>       WAITPID=""
>       test -f $PID && WAITPID=`cat $PID`
> 
> Otherwise restart is useless because it starts MD without waiting for the old one to stop and it doesn't work :(

This should probably go to freebsd-ports not -stable, since both
mimedefang and perl are ports things.  CC'ing.

Also, that patch doesn't look correct, or you got your diff arguments
backwards (e.g. change should be fixing the wait=wait comparison to
use $1=wait).

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