Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-12 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
gable wrote: Yes! ... i now officially feel like a moron :-) ... yr right ... zabbix makes a tcp connection to port 783 to check it's running ... switching monitoring on and off ... switches the error on and off ... I'll look for the spamd process instead as a monitoring means ... I guees the fa

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-12 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, gable wrote: > > > we have monitoring in place .. zabbix in this case .. The process isn't > dying, tailing the logs .. and checking processes .. the spamd process is up > and running ... but the connection between spamc and the daemon isn't > talking correctly A fellow s

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-12 Thread gable
Yes! ... i now officially feel like a moron :-) ... yr right ... zabbix makes a tcp connection to port 783 to check it's running ... switching monitoring on and off ... switches the error on and off ... I'll look for the spamd process instead as a monitoring means ... I guees the fact the event c

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-11 Thread Justin Mason
I think you misunderstand. the error message is entirely normal and not indicative of a bug. it's produced when something (such as monitoring software!) opens a TCP connection to the spamd port, then closes it again. --j. gable writes: > we have monitoring in place .. zabbix in this case .. T

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-11 Thread gable
we have monitoring in place .. zabbix in this case .. The process isn't dying, tailing the logs .. and checking processes .. the spamd process is up and running ... but the connection between spamc and the daemon isn't talking correctly A fellow sysadmi seems to think it's something to do wi

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-11 Thread Justin Mason
that's the error message produced when the connection is closed before any data is sent. Have you got an nmap running every 5 minutes? or some kind of keep-alive daemon checking to see if spamd is running? --j. gable writes: > gable wrote: > > > > Hiya > > > > Has anyone come across error lik

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-11 Thread gable
gable wrote: > > Hiya > > Has anyone come across error like these before - spamassassin was working > perfect - but a couple of days ago - we got flooded with spam. Checking > the logs ... errors like the one below come up 25,000 times :-) ... The > only solution i've found to work is to keep