Milter-greylist

FYI.  I think I've solved this problem.  It was a problem with errno not 
being set because of some threads issue.  bind() in local_addr() then wasn't 
setting errno appropriately causing syncing to fail.  I've been able to get 
syncing to work on AIX by either adding -D_THREAD_SAFE when using gcc or 
compiling with xlc_r instead.  Even though configure was adding -lpthread to 
the link step that apparently wasn't enough.  With either of these two 
options however, I had to make two small changes to list.h.  The error I get 
when compiling milter-greylist.c is (gcc)

list.h:36: error: redefinition of 'struct list'

or (xlc_r)

"list.h", line 36.11: 1506-334 (S) Identifier list has already been defined 
on line 178 of "/usr/include/grp.h".

In <grp.h> there's a struct name _grjunk within an _THREAD_SAFE #ifdef that 
defines

         struct list
         {
                 char *name;
                 struct list *nxt;
         } *_minuslist;

If I rename "list" on lines 36 and 66 in list.h to something else, then it 
compiles fine.  Those two lines in list.h are

LIST_HEAD(list, list_entry);
         struct list al_head;


On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Mike Burns wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running milter-greylist 3.0 on AIX 5.3, with sendmail 8.13.8.
> milter-greylist works fine running standalone on AIX, but when I try to sync
> it to other peer machines (Solaris 9 and Fedora Core 3) it fails to sync to
> them.  It can receive sync messages from the other machines fine.  When the
> AIX box tries to sync to the other peers the following messages are logged
>
> Dec 21 09:01:41 ibm2 mail:debug milter-greylist: sync_sender running
> Dec 21 09:01:41 ibm2 mail:err|error milter-greylist: local_addr: bind
> failed: No such file or directory
> Dec 21 09:01:41 ibm2 mail:debug milter-greylist: sync_sender sleeping, done
> 0 entries in 0.047040s
>
> I'll see one "local_addr: bind failed" message for each peer in the conf
> file.  After this the AIX box never tries to sync to the other machines
> again until I restart milter-greylist.  Actually, the other peer machines
> don't log an "Incoming MX sync connexion" from the AIX box, so it doesn't
> appear to be getting that far.
>
> I can successfully telnet from the AIX box to port 5252 on one of the other
> machines and add an entry manually so it doesn't look like a connectivity
> problem.  One other odd message I see from time to time only on the AIX box
> is
>
> Dec 21 09:14:00 ibm2 mail:debug milter-greylist: smfi_getsymval failed for
> {if_addr}
>
> Has anyone encountered these messages before and know how to resolve them or
> does anyone have suggestions on how to further debug the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Mike
>
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> Mike Burns                                     Emerging Technologies Group
> burns@...                  Academic Services and Emerging Technologies
> +1 814 863 5606                          The Pennsylvania State University
>

- Mike

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Mike Burns                                     Emerging Technologies Group
burns@...                  Academic Services and Emerging Technologies
+1 814 863 5606                          The Pennsylvania State University