On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:32:49PM -0000, Pete Henshall wrote: > Are there spamc processes accessing them?? No. My spamc processes time out after 600 seconds, so they've finished up hours ago after they delivered their e-mails.
> - what is in that userpref file? There are only comments in this user's userpref file > How have you started spamd? spamd is started on boot with this command: > spamd -d -a -c -m 5 I just killed the main spamd process, but the two wild-children didn't die. So I "kill -9" them to get rid of them. > Did it do it under 2.5x? I never used the "-m" flag under 2.5x so if the spamds were getting out of control, I never knew about it because any multitude of spamds could start up. Now that I am running with the "-m" flag at V2.60, if I get too many spamd processes running, then I am notified via the log file that Dec 4 07:27:15 phobos spamd[2447]: hit max-children limit (5): waiting for some to exit Thanks again, Cheryl -- Cheryl Southard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk