Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 15:20 schrieb Mikael Syska: > Hi, Hello Mikael,
thank you for the answer. I just wondered why rhyolite suggest on their website to enable dccifd when used with spamassassin. To me it seams as though spamassassin uses allways dccproc. And it competes with dccifd. I just want to know what happens there and why I get these errors. Greetings Stefan > from the mailscanner page: > http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_spam:spamassass >in:plugins:dcc:dccifd_install&do=diff1162335096 > > Dccifd(8) is similar to dccproc but is not run separately for each mail > message and so is far more efficient. It receives mail messages via a > socket somewhat like dccm, but with a simpler protocol that can be > used by Perl scripts or other programs. > > Vernon Schryver > > dccproc involves a fork() and exec() and then sending the message through > a pipe to the child process and receiving the answer. > dccifd need only send the message over UNIX domain socket to a daemon > and receiving the answer. > > Dccproc must open, validate, and mmap() the whiteclnt and whiteclnt.dccw > files, while dccifd caches open files and mmap() regions. > Dccproc also creates creates a socket to talk to the DCC server while > dccifd caches open sockets. > > Hopes that answers your question ... so if you have a smal mail gw ... I > dont see the point in running the daemon, if there are plenty of resources. > > // ouT > > Stefan Jakobs wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm using Spamassassin 3.1.8 with amavisd-new 2.3.3 and postfix 2.4.3 on > > a mailrelay. Some days ago I installed a new version of DCC. And saw in > > the installation instructions that I should enable dccifd if I use > > spamassassin. So I did. Now I get the following errors in my logs: > > > > Jul 6 00:27:21 testserv dccifd[28725]: something running with socket > > at /var/dcc/dccifd; fatal error > > Jul 6 00:27:21 testserv dccifd[9824]: truncated request > > Jul 6 01:27:16 testserv dccifd[31941]: getpwnam(490): No such file or > > directory > > > > Is it really necessary to enable dccifd? If yes, what will I do to avoid > > these errors? > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Bye > > Stefan
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