After all that it seems my problems were related to having changed versions of perl and spamd's inability to find the new libraries on it's path.
Many thanks all for your help! hugh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:09 PM Subject: RE: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!? > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:02 AM > >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >Subject: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd > >stops running!? > > > > > >Will anyone please help me? > > > > I've recently had a working sitewide install of spamassassin > >stop working > >and it's very upsetting! :( > > > >Many thanks. > > > >hugh > >-------------------------------- > > > >-- My problem: > *snip* > >-- My setup: > > > >Red Hat 7.3 > >SA 2.64 (site wide install using /etc/procmailrc - see below) > >Perl 5.6.1 > > > >-- Contents of /etc/procmailrc: > > > >DROPPRIVS=yes > >:0fw > >| /usr/bin/spamc -f > > > >-- From /var/log/maillog > > > >Sep 17 11:20:24 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd > >at 127.0.0.1 > >failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused > >Sep 17 11:20:25 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd > >at 127.0.0.1 > >failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused > >Sep 17 11:20:26 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd > >at 127.0.0.1 > >failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused > >Sep 17 11:20:27 wibble spamc[6273]: connection attempt to spamd aborted > >after 3 retries > > > It might be a permissions problem. Can you call spamc with the -u and a > particular user with permissions? > > --Chris
