thanks for the quick reply.
James Lay wrote:
On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I left off below that I am using
spam-milter 0.3.1-1
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I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors
for 10+ years. Always trying to do better....
PLATFORM:
Centos 5.0
1Ghz processor 512Mb memory
Mail server: Scalix 11.1
MTA: Sendmail ver. 8.13.8
Spamassassin: 3.1.9
Webmin: 1.360
I followed the Scalix WiKi spamassassin install instructions:
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowTos/SpamAssassin
I am using Thunderbird 1.5.0.12, sending mail has a significant delay.
The meter just sits there near the beginning for quite some time.
Often, the sending times out.
I read through much of the spamassassin WiKi. Nothing on performance
seems to apply. When I go into the /var/log/maillog, I catch soom real
problems.
I enabled DNS checking (dns_available yes) and restarted spamassassin
via webmin and caught the following in the maillog:
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: connection from
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 48800
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: still running as root: user
not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
at /usr/bin/spamd line 1161, <GEN4> line 4.
Robert,
What's your startup line to start spamd look like? If you're starting it
like:
Spamd -u spamduser
from file: /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin:
# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
and as you can see below, the actual command that got run was:
/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
So no -u at all!
Is that user in your /etc/passwd file?
No spamduser.
What files would I expect to see owned by spamduser. Oh, wait. If the
user's not there, there better not be any files owned by it....
And looking at running processes via webmin I see:
1373 root 12:13 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r
/var/run/spamd.pid
1381 nobody 12:13 spamd child
1382 root 12:13 spamd child
What do I change so that it does not fall back to 'nobody'?
Now this MIGHT explain something else I am seeing in maillog:
Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.1381 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: auto-whitelist: open of
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.1381 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Please lend me a hand in cleaning what looks to be a very basic set of
install problems.
