When I upgraded one of our farm of Fedora servers (running Perl 5.8.3) from 3.0.4 to 3.1.0-rc1 this morning, the syslog entry format changed from:
Aug 17 04:08:14 cerberus spamd[31987]: connection from cerberus-internal [192.168.128.141] at port 50654 Aug 17 04:08:14 cerberus spamd[31987]: checking message (unknown) for (unknown):99. Aug 17 04:08:14 cerberus spamd[31987]: clean message (-1.2/5.0) for (unknown):99 in 0.7 seconds, 36 bytes. Aug 17 04:08:14 cerberus spamd[31987]: result: . -1 - ALL_TRUSTED,MISSING_DATE,MISSING_SUBJECT scantime=0.7,size=36,mid=(unknown),autolearn=disabled to: Aug 17 11:20:13 cerberus spamassassin[10287]: spamd: connection from cerberus-internal [192.168.128.141] at port 48966 Aug 17 11:20:13 cerberus spamassassin[10287]: spamd: checking message (unknown) for (unknown):99 Aug 17 11:20:16 cerberus spamassassin[10287]: spamd: clean message (1.7/5.0) for (unknown):99 in 2.7 seconds, 36 bytes. Aug 17 11:20:16 cerberus spamassassin[10287]: spamd: result: . 1 - MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS,TO_CC_NONE scantime=2.7,size=36,user=(unknown),uid=99,required_score=5.0,rhost=cerberus-internal,raddr=192.168.128.141,rport=48966,mid=(unknown),autolearn=disabled It appears that the ident being passed to syslog has changed from 'spamd:' to 'spamassassin: spamd:', though I haven't verified that yet. As a result of the format change, our stats gathering from syslog entries is showing no traffic on the upgraded server. Has anyone else seen this problem? -- Dawn Keenan IST, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON Canada