[BlueOnyx:23513] Re: E-Mail and GeoIP

[Larry Smith]

Hmmm, had two (out of 14) that had the wrong link.
(your instructions fixed).

Also have two (moderately recent 5209R loads)
that have no GeoLite files at all, only the Geo-initial
stuff.  Any way to fix that?

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Mon December 2 2019 07:30, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> > Recently I installed the AV-SPAM package on 5209R for the GeoIP features
> > but when I start the e-mail server I see the GeoIP errors below (not
> > available) - does anyone know how to go about debugging this?
>
> I just checked. There was a GeoIP update from CentOS, which replaced the
> GeoIP that we have in the BlueOnyx YUM repos.
>
> That messed with which database our GeoIP uses. We're using the legacy
> "GeoLite2 Country", which is available without subscription. It is less
> accurate and no longer being maintained, though.
>
> Check if you have a /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat and that it is
> larger than 0 bytes. It should be around 1.2 MB:
>
> ]# ls -hals /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat
> 1,2M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2M  1. Apr 2018
> /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat
>
> Your /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat *should* be a symbolic link to
> /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat, but the recent update might have
> pointed it to GeoIP-initial.dat instead.
>
> Fix:
>
> rm /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
> ln -s /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
>
> That should fix it.
>
> I will publish a YUM update that will correctly point GeoIP to the right
> database again.
>
> > Dec  2 11:52:43 bugblatter sendmail[14038]: xB2BqhtX014038: Milter
> > (spamassassin): local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe
> > Dec  2 11:52:43 bugblatter sendmail[14038]: xB2BqhtX014038: Milter
> > (spamassassin): to error state
>
> Please run this to restart all services in the correct sequence:
>
> /usr/sausalito/sbin/avspam_init.pl -restart
>
> Then check the status with this command and it should be fine:
>
> /usr/sausalito/sbin/avspam_init.pl -status