Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Vincent, > Are you running spamd/spamc as root? it is not recommended to run spamd > as root. I know, but so far I was too lazy setting it up to run as a user. There are still some issues, e.g. when I start spamd with use_auto_whitelist 1 and there is no file auto-whitelist yet, it is

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
> If you remember my log file, there were a bunch of days in a row with one > to three of them, then three on April 8th, one on April 9th and none > since then. Well, it still could be some kind of watchdog that kills processes when they use too much CPU or memory. That wouldn't happen on a regula

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread J.
--- Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I found the cause: my stupidess DOH! > > I've got a cronjob that kills processes which have been hanging > around for > too long. Two days ago I reconfigured it and made a mistake which > lead to > exactly this: spamd with etime of mo

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM

2007-04-13 Thread J.
It doesn't seem excessive to me, though my whitelist is actually twice this size. Here's my blacklist from local.cf: blacklist_from *reunion.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] blacklist_from *rm05.net *adm02.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *agava.ne

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Jason, I found the cause: my stupidess DOH! I've got a cronjob that kills processes which have been hanging around for too long. Two days ago I reconfigured it and made a mistake which lead to exactly this: spamd with etime of more than 60 minutes are killed with SIGTERM. This cronjob is re

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread J.
--- Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, J. wrote: > > > --- Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I seem to have the same problem! > >> > >> Yesterday I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 > >> (to be exact: 3.0.3-2sarge1 to 3.1.7-1~bpo.1 from Debian > backports) > >> an

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM

2007-04-13 Thread Bill McCormick
J. wrote: I got an obvious spam a little while ago that got scored "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=? required=?" so I looked up the message in the system log. Check out line 5 below (server killed by SIGTERM): I had a similar issue caused by using a very large blacklist; I took out the blacklist a

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread J.
--- Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone here suggested that it's a memory problem. > Where? I didn't see any reply to your post. Sorry, it was on the Gentoo forum, not here. Here's the thread, not much beyond what I mentioned though so not sure it will help: http://forums.gentoo.

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Vincent Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Andy Spiegl wrote: Someone here suggested that it's a memory problem. Where? I didn't see any reply to your post. Most of my machines have 1gig RAM. That should be enough for the 5 SA-children I thought... The rate that it's occuring for you might support that if you h

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, J. wrote: --- Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I seem to have the same problem! Yesterday I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 (to be exact: 3.0.3-2sarge1 to 3.1.7-1~bpo.1 from Debian backports) and now ALL spamds terminate after a while. And I have no clue why! The worst

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
> Someone here suggested that it's a memory problem. Where? I didn't see any reply to your post. Most of my machines have 1gig RAM. That should be enough for the 5 SA-children I thought... > The rate that it's occuring for you might support that if you handle a > lot of users. Yes, but my setup

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread J.
--- Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have the same problem! > > Yesterday I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 > (to be exact: 3.0.3-2sarge1 to 3.1.7-1~bpo.1 from Debian backports) > and now ALL spamds terminate after a while. And I have no clue why! > > The worst part is that spamc re

Re: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM (every hour!)

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
I seem to have the same problem! Yesterday I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 (to be exact: 3.0.3-2sarge1 to 3.1.7-1~bpo.1 from Debian backports) and now ALL spamds terminate after a while. And I have no clue why! The worst part is that spamc returns the messages unprocessed if it cannot connect to spa