I'm running spamassassin 3.0.0 on FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE with the spamd daemon accepting connections locally from qmail-scanner for all incoming mail. Our server does some 80K messages per day.
Spamd runs like this: /usr/local/bin/spamd -A 127.0.0.1 -L -x -u spamc -d -m 10 Every hour or so, it spews forth a dozen or so messages like this: Oct 5 13:26:25 pop spamd[267]: server hit by SIGCHLD Oct 5 13:26:25 pop spamd[267]: handled cleanup of child pid 9980 Oct 5 13:26:25 pop spamd[267]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 19660 Oct 5 13:26:30 pop spamd[267]: server hit by SIGCHLD Oct 5 13:26:30 pop spamd[267]: handled cleanup of child pid 10643 Oct 5 13:26:30 pop spamd[267]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 19800 Oct 5 13:26:37 pop spamd[267]: server hit by SIGCHLD Oct 5 13:26:37 pop spamd[267]: handled cleanup of child pid 11051 Oct 5 13:26:37 pop spamd[267]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 19949 Oct 5 13:26:39 pop spamd[19660]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/spamc/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied Oct 5 13:26:39 pop spamd[19800]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/spamc/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied Oct 5 13:26:41 pop spamd[19949]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/spamc/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied And then it's quiet. Mail is still getting scanned and passes through without any problems but these messages are bugging me.