Hallo Tim,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:08:19PM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote:

> This is my first post to the SA mailing list.  I hope I'm proceeding
> correctly.  I noticed that my mail server seems to be running slow.  I
> tailed the syslog and found the error below.  I included the syslog
> entry for the test message I sent to my email server.
> 
> I'm hoping someone can advise so I can learn the cause and solution of
> this problem.
> 
> > Nov 21 17:32:45 mail spamd[1579]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
> > retrying... at
> > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line
> > 554.
> > Nov 21 17:33:20 mail last message repeated 7 times

Who is the owner of "spamd" ?  Does that owner have all the necessary
permissions to write in the directory where spamd wants to work?

Regards
Johann
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Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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