Re: {bb} qub.gif... ??

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:01, Ronan wrote:
> It would appear that the mod to head and tail were successful...
> It works now...
> ill need to do a bit of poking but im sure the gif file name is created 
> dynamically after BB checks whether the service is running or not. 
> Thanks for poking me in the right direction phil...

>From what I can see, BB just cuts the first word out of each log
file (using a line like the one I was using for testing) and uses
that for the colour. I expect that the error with the "head"
command was leaving "qub" in the first positional variable as
an side-effect of a previous operation.

> secondly im getting this error in my exim logs on the smtp server
> 
> 2005-10-25 10:52:11 SMTP protocol synchronization error (input sent 
> without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=whirligig 
> [143.117.xxx.yyy] input="QUIT\r\n"
> 
> now i know what it means... its fairly self explanatory
> but why is BB doing it?
> I'll have another poke to see where it tries the smtp port and how it 
> queries the daemon
> 
> R

This is similar to the thread "Sendmail and greet_pause". Normally,
BB just opens a port and sends a "QUIT" so as not to slow things
down. The optimum solution is to stop your MTA from strictly
enforcing the protocol where BB is concerned. I think Exim has
a "smtp_enforce_sync" option for that, but I don't know if it
can be applied to a specific host or just globally.

You could also modify BB to pause or use an extension script to
do your SMTP testing. Another option might be to use the ":s"
option to your "smtp" directive. This should stop BB from sending
any data, but it might just change the log message you are seeing
to a different one.

Cheers, Phil.


 
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