Daryl & all: To help get around the problem of SA 3.1 dying here a friend wrote the following pair of shell scripts:
spamw.bash - run from cron to make sure the spam.bash script hasn't stopped spam.bash - watched for spamd to be running and if it stops restarts it. Here they are, YMMV, no guarantees, etc. spamw.bash ========== #!/bin/bash #****************************************************************************# # PSSPAM.KSH # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Usage: To check for the spam assassin process. # # Author: Bill Hodgkinson # # Written: 1-10.2006 # # # #****************************************************************************# # Can be run from cron with # #00-59/1 * * * * /root/spamw.bash > /dev/null 2>&1 set -x #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # S C R I P T S E T U P # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# #-- Global Variable [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE=`date` DIR1=/usr/sbin BIN1="spam.bash" LOG=/tmp/restart-spamd.tmp MESSAGE1="The Spam monitor process was restarted on $DATE" PROC=spam.bash #***********************************************************************# # S E T U P F U N C T I O N # #***********************************************************************# # function CHECKSA { # looks for the target process TESTPS=`ps -e | grep $PROC | head -n 1 | grep -v grep` TESTSA=$TESTPS"junk" echo $TESTSA if [[ $TESTSA = junk ]]; then nohup $DIR1/$BIN1 > /dev/null 2>&1 & sleep 5 echo $MESSAGE1 >> $LOG echo $MESSAGE1 | mail -s "$MESSAGE1" $ADMIN fi exit } #***********************************************************************# # O U T E T B L O C K O F S C R I P T # #***********************************************************************# # CHECKSA #***********************************************************************# # E N D O F S C R I P T # #***********************************************************************# spam.bash ========= #!/bin/bash #****************************************************************************# # PSSPAM.KSH # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Usage: To check for the spam assassin process. # # Author: Bill Hodgkinson # # Written: 1-10.2006 # # # #****************************************************************************# set -x #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # S C R I P T S E T U P # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# #-- Global Variable [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE=`date` DIR1=/usr/local/bin BIN1="spamd -d -u spamd -m 10 --max-conn-per-child=50" LOG=/tmp/restart-spamd.tmp MESSAGE1="The Spamd process was restarted on $DATE" PROC=spamd PROC=spamd #***********************************************************************# # S E T U P F U N C T I O N # #***********************************************************************# # function CHECKSA { # looks for the target process TESTPS=`ps -e | grep $PROC | head -n 1 | grep -v grep` TESTSA=$TESTPS"junk" echo $TESTSA if [[ $TESTSA = junk ]]; then $DIR1/$BIN1 echo $MESSAGE1 >> $LOG echo $MESSAGE1 | mail -s "$MESSAGE1" $ADMIN fi } #______________________________________________________________________ # function BACKGRD { # while [ 1 ] do CHECKSA sleep 10 done } #***********************************************************************# # O U T E T B L O C K O F S C R I P T # #***********************************************************************# # BACKGRD #***********************************************************************# # E N D O F S C R I P T # #***********************************************************************# ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 262 677 0766 President +1 206 374 6482 FAX Netwrx Consulting Inc. Jackson, WI USA http://www.netwrx1.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #12862186