[Gllug] Failed razor check using spamassassin

[Jon Dye]

Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003, Jon Dye moaned:
>>Nix wrote:
>>>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Jon Dye yowled:
>>>>I am getting the following message in my mail logs:
>>>>
>>>>Sep 28 22:02:20 *** spamd[12731]: razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Died at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Net/Ping.pm line 307,
>>>><GEN517> line 1.
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>Has anyone else come across this?  Am I correct in my assumption?  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fix this (or is
>>>>the error just a warning and everything works fine)?
>>>
>>>It's just a warning; you won't get razor checking, but you'll get
>>>everything else.
>>>sa 2.60 fixes this.
>>
>>So it's a bug in sa then?
> 
> It is a bug in Razor tripped by SA, I think.
 >
> 
>>                           To me it seemed like razor or Net::Ping was doing the wrong thing.  Is there reference to this bug on the
>>sa site because I couldn't find anything when I searched?
> 

> It was discussed on the mailing list some time ago, IIRC. (Of course,
> SourceForge's mailing list archives are as horribly broken as ever...)
> 
>>I'll ignore the warning for now, I had assumed that it just ment it skipped the razor check but I was hoping to get it working.
> 
> Actually, the `Died' makes it look like Net::Ping fell over.
> What version of that do you have?

5.6.1
and Net::Ping did fall over.  It issued a die command after timing out 
waiting for a response to it's TCP packet.

The code is something like:
$SIG{'ALRM'} = sub { die };
alarm($timeout);

<try and connect via tcp>

This function seems to return true if it can connect, false if it is 
rejected and calls die if it times out.  Seems like it should actually 
return false in the timeout case too seeing as its doing a tcp 'ping'.

JD


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