Johann Spies wrote: >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 > > Thank you for your reponse. The owner of spamd is user spamd who has permissions: -r--r--r-- 1 spamd staff 19301 2005-08-11 16:38 SpamdForkScaling.pm
Tim