What's wrong with that stupid qmail-scanner, again >(

[tecknojunky]

[slashdot]

After I emerged 1.25 qmail-scanner I had to chown the following files...

cd /var/spool/qmailscan

orig: drwxr-xr-x 6 qscand qscand 416 Feb 27 23:31 .
chown qmaild:qscand .
after: drwxr-xr-x 6 qmaild qscand 416 Feb 27 23:33 .

orig: drwxr-x--- 2 qscand qscand 72 Feb 27 23:31 tmp
chown -R qmaild:qscand tmp
after: drwxr-x--- 2 qmaild qscand 72 Feb 27 23:31 tmp

orig: drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 120 Feb 27 23:31 working
chown -R qmaild:qscand working
after: drwxr-x--- 5 qmaild qscand 120 Feb 27 23:31 working

result:
-rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 0 Feb 27 23:31 quarantine.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 7414 Feb 27 23:31 quarantine-attachments.txt
drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 120 Feb 27 23:31 quarantine
drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 120 Feb 27 23:31 archive
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 27 23:31 viruses.log -> quarantine.log
drwxr-x--- 5 qmaild qscand 120 Feb 27 23:31 working
-rw------- 1 qscand root 334 Feb 27 23:31 qmail-queue.log
-rw------- 1 qmaild nofiles 40 Feb 27 23:33 qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt
-rw-r----- 1 qmaild nofiles 49152 Feb 27 23:33 quarantine-attachments.db
-rw------- 1 qmaild nofiles 501 Feb 27 23:40 mailstats.csv
drwxr-x--- 2 qmaild qscand 72 Feb 27 23:40 tmp

QMail works fine now. Hope this helps!!

[tecknojunky]

The problem I have is that something will chown back qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt to root:root rendering the mail server useless. I get to know about it when:

1- I send a mail and evolution spits a DATA error.
2- I notice that I received no mails since a couple of hours.
3- An angry user tells me "mail server down again?" looking me with eyes that seems to say "you incompetent".

All this trouble started when I emerged some version of Perl that changed something about suid, or whatever. All I know is that my postmaster life has been miserable since.
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[slashdot]

Check to make sure there's nothing running under cron that will do this. Other reports I've read suggest removing /etc/cron.daily/qmail-scanner to prevent automatic
prems correction with the 'qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z' script but i've not had to do this.

Hope this helps.

[tecknojunky]

[slashdot]

If you use the 2.4 kernel then perhaps you could use this utility....http://www.sysinternals.com/linux/utilities/filemon.shtml
however, I not aware of anything else that has the same functionality without you having to write something yourself...may be some else can suggest something though.

Anyone?

[tecknojunky]

I appreciate your help Slashdot.

For now, I've been keeping a close eye on /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt and, surprise, surprise (look at the time):

[slashdot]

fingers crossed!

[zap_killer]

I had the same problem with 'Permission denied' in logs.

Now, that point is fixed (thank you guys), but (always a 'but') now, I cannot run anymore qmail-scanner-queue :

[tecknojunky]

Hum... I rememebr having problems with that too. Checking back on it, I have this:

[mattsteven]

Before you start chowning/chmoding, if you were using the tcp.smtp configuration before simply look at this file:

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl

After messing around for a long time the only thing it turned out that I had to do was

[lcj]

A different approach:

1. edit the

[jsouthard]

Hey Guys,

I have spent the last 4 days trying to figure out this problem. I found references to this problem from 2004 so I figured there was a better solution by now than chown or chmod or hacking ebuilds. So I don't know if this helps anyone else but it helped me. Now let me preface this by saying yesterday I reemerged perl with the suidperl use flag because I thought that might be my problem but I had the same issues this morning. So that may or may not be part of the problem but I will reemerge later to find out.

My main problem was I was reading the instructions that fly during emerge that say run

setuidgid qmaild /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g

and then the log files that say

X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[] cannot open /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by running "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z"? - No such file or directory.

I finally opened my eyes and realized that all the install HOWTOs talk about the new wrapper var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue which fixed some security issues. So I dropped the ".pl" from the above two instructions and it worked!! Then I checked /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp and the line to enable qmail-scanner was pointing to the perl script as well and not the wrapper. I dropped the .pl and mail is working thru qmail-scanner.

I hope this helps. It has frustrated the heck out of me for way to long.

Jacob

[nianderson]

Im having issues with this as well.

[iTimm]

Problem located: Perl is merged without perlsuid

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