[BlueOnyx:19629] Re: 5207R, 5208R, 5209R: AV-SPAM 6.2.0 released

[Colin Jack]

Yay! Thanks Michael.

Colin




On 29/05/2016, 00:13, "Blueonyx on behalf of Michael Stauber" <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>We've had a few support tickets in the last couple of weeks regarding
>the AV-SPAM. The problem was mostly with services not starting in the
>right order and impeding email delivery due to Milter socket errors and
>therelike.
>
>To address this issue we rolled up the AV-SPAM v6.2, which is now
>available on NewLinQ.
>
>There is now a central init script that can be run to restart all
>AV-SPAM services in one go:
>
>5207R/5208R:
>=============
>
>/sbin/service avspam stop|start|restart
>
>Example:
>
>/sbin/service avspam restart
>
>
>5209R:
>======
>
>systemctl start|stop|restart avspam
>
>Example:
>
>systemctl restart avspam
>
>
>Additional diagnostics are also provided:
>
>5207R/5208R:
>=============
>
>/sbin/service avspam status
>... or ...
>/usr/sausalito/sbin/avspam_init.pl -status
>
>
>5209R:
>=====
>
>/usr/sausalito/sbin/avspam_init.pl -status
>
>The output of the diagnostic will show something like this:
>
>]# /usr/sausalito/sbin/avspam_init.pl -status
>==================================================
>| Service:       | GUI:  | AutoStart: | Running: |
>==================================================
>| Sendmail       |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| Greylist       |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| GeoIP          |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| Spamassassin   |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| Spamass-Milter |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| ClamAV         |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>| ClamAV-Milter  |   1   |      1     |     1    |
>==================================================
>AV-SPAM Email service are running.
>
>The column "GUI" shows if the respective AV-SPAM service is enabled in
>the GUI. The colum "AutoStart" shows if the service is configured to
>automatically start on server startup or reboots. The final column
>"Running" shows if a service is currently running.
>
>The last line of the output under the table shows a summary. Such as the
>fact that all enabled services are running. Or if the AV-SPAM is in a
>failed state.
>
>An issued "restart" command to the service "avspam" will now kill off
>all AV-SPAM related services and will restart the enabled services in
>the right sequence. Before version 6.2 we tried to make do with shorter
>startup times by only restarting services that needed a restart. But
>this caused issues if the email system was currently processing a
>message, which potentially cause it to enter a failed state.
>
>Now with the mandatory restart of all related (enabled) services we
>should get a better reliability.
>
>Lastly: The Active Monitor components of the AV-SPAM have also been
>overhauled to no longer restart services individually as needed, but to
>restart everything that is enabled in the right order.
>
>-- 
>With best regards
>
>Michael Stauber
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