On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:18:20AM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > I know it not recommended to run spamd as root-, however during the install Really? Where do you get that impression? Running it as root is the default and how most people use it. However, running as few processes as root is good for security, and depending on how you setup SpamAssassin, you could definitely set it to not run as root. It really depends what you're trying to do. > when I got the blue gui screen - it said "run spamd as root"- recommended" > Question is why does it say recommended , also how do I undo that ? I didn't know if I should start a new thread or if i=this is somehow related- but spamd is timing out constantly- I think too many spamd or children are running- 007-04-16 13:44:21 1HdVDP-0000Kv-Ci spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2007-04-16 13:44:29 1HdVDO-0000Kt-UX spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2007-04-16 13:44:35 1HdVDm-0000Ky-FB spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2007-04-16 13:44:39 1HdV7z-0000KB-6q spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2007-04-16 13:44:53 1HdV8C-0000KD-HM spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out Here's the children stats- how can I control this 350 prefork: child states: BBBBB 77 prefork: child states: II 33 prefork: child states: BBBB 27 prefork: child states: BBB 23 prefork: child states: BBBBI 17 prefork: child states: III 17 prefork: child states: IB 17 prefork: child states: BB 16 prefork: child states: BII 15 prefork: child states: BBBIB 14 prefork: child states: BBBI 12 prefork: child states: IBI 12 prefork: child states: BIII 12 prefork: child states: BI 12 prefork: child states: BBIBB 11 prefork: child states: IIB 10 prefork: child states: BIBI 10 prefork: child states: BIBBB 9 prefork: child states: BBIIB 9 prefork: child states: BBBII 8 prefork: child states: IIBI 8 prefork: child states: IBBI 8 prefork: child states: BBII 7 prefork: child states: IBBIB 7 prefork: child states: BIBBI 7 prefork: child states: BBI 6 prefork: child states: IIBB 6 prefork: child states: IBBBB
