Hi,
I was running into this problem as well. I was running SA 3.0.0 on
Postfix 2 on Redhat AS 3.2. Essentially upon most restarts, it appears child
processes were still running. The port to SA was in fact open so SA could
not start, but postfix could not connect to it. The fix at that time was
simply stopping spamassassin and then starting it again.
I recently upgraded to 3.0.2 (yesterday) and have attempted dozens
of times to recreate the problem that happened almost every time before and
I have yet to successfully recreate the problem.
While I would be curious to know the cause of the problem, the quick
permanent fix could probably be found in upgrading.
Hope it helps,
Damien Kemens,
Equinox Systems and Development
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:39 AM
To: 'BCC'; users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: RE: SA restarting problems, Address already in use
BCC wrote:
> Hello happy SpamAssassin users,
>
> Every night, I stop Postfix, stop SA, force-expire bayes db,
> restart SA, restart Postfix. This goes fine most of the time,
> but sometimes I run into problems.
>
> The problems arise around once a week or so : spamc cannot
> connect to spamd, saying the following in the maillog file :
>
> Dec 15 04:25:15 server spamc[18803]: connect(AF_INET) to
> spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
>
> When this happens, manually restarting spamd resolves the problem.
> Until next time.
>
> As there is no apparent reason for spamd to die (or not to restart
> correctly) in the maillog file, I now start spamd without
> using '-d', in order to log stderr and stdout messages in a
> separate file. I am now using the following command to start spamd :
>
> /usr/bin/spamd -c -u spam >/var/log/test_spamd.
> `/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log 2>&1 &
>
> The problem occured again, and I catched the following from
> spamd output
>>
What is the output of netstat?
Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
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