...when I boot the system spamd is started and I get no failure notice in the logs, but when I look for it as a process after about 30 seconds it is gone. When I use /etc/init.d/spamassassin start to activate it again it dies again. The only way I can get spamd to stay resident is to start it on the command line as spamd -d.
The -d options *should* be necessary to keep it around; that's the "daemonize" flag, which tells spamd to detach from the invoking shell and run in the background as a daemon. My usual spamd invocation, for example, is:
/usr/local/bin/spamd -m 4 -d
, which tells spamd not to run more than 4 instances of itself, and to run as a daemon.
I have included the spamassassin start/stop script below. Has anyone else had this problem with 8.0?
Sorry, I'm not currently using Red Hat. But I do notice something about this init script...
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
# Start daemon.
echo -n "Starting spamd: "
daemon spamd $SPAMDOPTIONS
That last line is what's supposed to actually start spamd. Apparently the $SPAMDOPTIONS environment variable should be set ahead of time, somehow. (And it should include a -d in it.) I can see why RH set things up that way; to make it easy to tweak your spamd options (add or remove things like my "-m 4" above, for example.) But the init script itself includes nothing that would set that variable, and I can't imagine how it would be set in the normal boot process, either.
My suggestion would be to add " -d" after $SPAMDOPTIONS in the script. Assuming you normally start and stop your daemons using the init scripts, this will fix the problem both from the command line and during standard bootup sequence.
--Kai MacTane
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