On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, gable wrote:
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> we have monitoring in place .. zabbix in this case .. The process isn't
> dying, tailing the logs .. and checking processes .. the spamd process is up
> and running ... but the connection between spamc and the daemon isn't
> talking correctly .... A fellow sysadmi seems to think it's something to do
> with IO::Handle perl module ...they had the exact same errors .... and
> blamed it on that!
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> Justin Mason wrote:
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> > that's the error message produced when the connection is closed
> > before any data is sent. Have you got an nmap running every 5
> > minutes? or some kind of keep-alive daemon checking to see if
> > spamd is running?
Can you program your 'zabbix' to hold a conversation with spamd?
The best way to check to make sure that spamd is alive would be to
do a 'PING' check. Have zabbix send the command "PING SPAMC/1.1"
and look for the "SPAMD/1.2 0 PONG" response.
EG:
% telnet spamd.host 783
Trying...
Connected to spamd.host
Escape character is '^]'.
PING SPAMC/1.1
SPAMD/1.2 0 PONG
Connection closed by foreign host.
quick check and no barking by spamd in the logs.
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