[syslog-ng] concatenated sendmail messages

[Fran Loehmann]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:31:52 +0100, Balazs Scheidler said:
> > This seems to be a sendmail bug then. I don't know why they don't use
> > the syslog() call in libc.
> 
> Actually, the sm_syslog() function in sendmail/conf.c *does* call the
> libc syslog(), and has for quite some time.  sm_syslog() exists primarily
> as a wrapper for working around busticated vendor syslogs.
> 
> I didn't see any mention of what libc Fran's sendmail is linked against, and
> thus I can't rule out the possibility that the syslog() call in libc isn't
> itself buggy.
> 
> 

Sorry for not including this info.

The system is RHEL4 AS Update 4. It is running Redhat's rpm.

sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
sendmail-doc-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
sendmail-devel-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5

I ran ldd on /usr/sbin/sendmail...

# ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail
libssl.so.4 => /lib/libssl.so.4 (0x00681000)
libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x00c27000)
libdb-4.2.so => /lib/tls/i686/libdb-4.2.so (0x00d33000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00483000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00f7e000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00111000)
libwrap.so.0 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.0 (0x00127000)
libhesiod.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhesiod.so.0 (0x00522000)
libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00577000)
libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x0012e000)
liblber-2.2.so.7 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x00a51000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0015f000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0029e000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x002b2000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x0028a000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00e4c000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00329000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x0028d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00faf000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00654000)

Please let me know if I may provide more info.

Thank You,
Fran