I've seen this a couple of times the last few days in my syslog. Tonight, I saw it after updating to 3.0.4:
Jun 11 19:38:21 cpollock spamd[7668]: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down Jun 11 19:38:22 cpollock spamassassin: spamd shutdown succeeded Jun 11 19:53:32 cpollock spamc[26370]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused Jun 11 19:53:33 cpollock spamc[26370]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused Prior to upgrading from .0.3 to .0.4 I ran #service spamassassin stop, and also shut down fetchmail so that nothing was processed, when the update was finished I started spamassassin and fetchmail. The below is 'not' when I started SA Jun 11 19:55:10 cpollock spamd[26754]: spamd starting Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server started on port 48373/tcp (running version 3.0.4) Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 26760 Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 26761 Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 26762 Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 26763 Jun 11 19:55:11 cpollock spamd[26754]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 26764 This is where I started SA and fetchmail Jun 11 19:57:21 cpollock spamd[27144]: spamd starting Jun 11 19:57:21 cpollock spamassassin: spamd startup succeeded Jun 11 19:57:30 cpollock fetchmail[27167]: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon Jun 11 19:57:33 cpollock spamd[27146]: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.0.4) But between 19:55 and 19:57 there is this: Jun 11 19:55:12 cpollock spamd[26760]: processing message <9PS291LhupY> for root:0. Jun 11 19:55:12 cpollock spamd[26760]: identified spam (15.6/5.0) for root:0 in 0.4 seconds, 3131 bytes. Jun 11 19:55:12 cpollock spamd[26760]: result: Y 15 - ALL_NATURAL,DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06,DIET_1,DRUGS_ERECTILE,DRUGS_PAIN,EXCUSE_12, EXCUSE_4,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS, INVALID_DATE,INVALID_MSGID,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,NO_REAL_NAME,SELECTED_YOU, SUBJ_FREE_CAP,UNDISC_RECIPS scantime=0.4,size=3131,mid=<9PS291LhupY>,autolearn=spam I do 'not' have autolearn enabled. Any ideas what may have happened? Googling the error in the first lines seems to mention something about spamassassin as a server and spamd not running. Spamd is most certainly running as shown in running processes. Sorry for the long msg with log cuts but not sure what, if anything is amiss. Thanks Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:16:05 up 13 days, 8:56, 3 users, load average: 1.46, 1.19, 1.16 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linus? Whose that? -- clueless newbie on #Linux ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
