RE: spamd is dying

> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian ally [mailto:2audrey@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 11:38 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: spamd is dying
>
> maillist wrote:
> > brian ally wrote:
> >
> >> postfix-2.3.3-1
> >> cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-3
> >> spamassassin-3.1.5-1
> >> spamass-milter-0.3.0-1.1.fc2.rf
> >> perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.5-1
> >>
> >> I'm seeing spamd processes dying consistently:
> >>
> > How are you starting spamd? I think you are starting spamd as a
user
> > without permissions to /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes.
>
> A script in /etc/init.d (SA was installed as a fedora RPM). The
relevant
> lines:
> -- snip --
> prog="spamd"
>
> # Source networking configuration.
> . /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> # Check that networking is up.
> [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
>
> # Set default spamd configuration.
> #SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
> SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -m5 -H"
> SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
>

You will need to change SPAMDOPTIONS variable to include the user it will run as - namely the -u option.

I change mine from a default entry of:

#SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"

to

SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H -x -q -u spam"

This cleared up a similar error I was getting with mine.

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I had a good reason to include all those switches when I installed SA, but don't ask me now why I needed them! All I know is that SA runs without errors!

Cheers,
AK. Received on Fri Aug 17 00:44:34 2007