I'd suggest running spamassassin directly from the command line with the -D and --lint options to see if that provides more detail about what exactly is going wrong. This is going to give you a lot of output so you'll probably want to run it like:
spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | less On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, Ken Wright wrote:
I've been trying to set up an email server and I want to use Spamassassin to prevent it from becoming Spam Central. I've installed SA and spamass-milter, but when I try to restart it after customizing the config files, I get this: Job for spamassassin.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status spamassassin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. So I checked journalctl and got this: -- Unit spamassassin.service has begun starting up. Feb 08 02:19:31 grace spamd[6289]: logger: removing stderr method Feb 08 02:19:32 grace spamd[6314]: Timeout::_run: check: no loaded plugin implements 'check_main': cannot scan! Feb 08 02:19:32 grace spamd[6314]: Check that the necessary '.pre' files are in the config directory. Feb 08 02:19:32 grace spamd[6314]: At a minimum, v320.pre loads the Check plugin which is required. Feb 08 02:19:32 grace spamd[6289]: child process [6314] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 3034. Feb 08 02:19:32 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255 Feb 08 02:19:32 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 08 02:19:32 grace systemd[1]: Failed to start Perl-based spam filter using text analysis. -- Subject: Unit spamassassin.service has failed At a friend's suggestion I also checked the mail.log and got this: Feb 8 02:19:25 grace spamd[6144]: logger: removing stderr method Feb 8 02:19:26 grace spamd[6172]: Timeout::_run: check: no loaded plugin implements 'check_main': cannot scan! Feb 8 02:19:26 grace spamd[6172]: Check that the necessary '.pre' files are in the config directory. Feb 8 02:19:26 grace spamd[6172]: At a minimum, v320.pre loads the Check plugin which is required. Feb 8 02:19:26 grace spamd[6144]: child process [6172] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 3034. Yes, v320.pre loads the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module, which is installed and up to date. I've just about run out of ideas. Anyone have any? Sorry this is so long, but I didn't want to omit any pertinent information. Ken Wright, pulling his hair out.
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