Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: >SpamAssassin v3.0.2, Perl 5.8.5 on Solaris 9 >SunOS spam2 5.9 Generic_118558-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 > >We recently installed SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a Solaris 9 system. We are >starting spamd from /etc/rc2.d so that it starts up AFTER the syslog >daemon starts, using the following switches (among others): > --syslog=local2 --syslog-socket=inet > >However, after a reboot, spamd doesn't send messages to syslog, and if I >capture the output from the spamd startup, I see the following errors: > >getservbyname failed for tcp at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1746 >udp connect: nobody listening at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1746 >failed to setlogsock(inet): no connection to syslog available at >/usr/local/bin/spamd line 1746 >reporting logs to stderr > > >Restarting spamd will make it start using syslog properly. This problem >does not occur with a similar setup on a Solaris 6 system. Any idea >what is causing the problem? >
The fact that getservbyname failed sounds like you're starting spamd very early in your boot process and really basic things like service name resolution (against /etc/services) haven't been started. Are all your network interfaces up and running before spamd is started?
