HI I had installed my Spamassassin on a linux box ( cent os ) to scan mails from a windows "Smatermail" server and so far it was working good, but suddenly it started giving the following error :
Fri Feb 29 00:12:49 2008 [27218] info: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 19811 due to SIGCHLD Fri Feb 29 00:19:18 2008 [27218] warn: prefork: retrying syswrite(): Resource temporarily unavailable at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 729. Fri Feb 29 00:19:18 2008 [27218] warn: prefork: syswrite(16) to 15822 failed on try 2 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 697. Fri Feb 29 00:19:19 2008 [27218] warn: prefork: retrying syswrite(): Resource temporarily unavailable at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 729. Fri Feb 29 00:19:19 2008 [27218] warn: prefork: syswrite(16) to 15822 failed on try 3 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 697. i then killed the spamd daemon and restarted spamd with the following command /usr/bin/spamd -d -u spamassassin -c -i -A 216.185. -H --max-children=7 --max-conn-per-child=128 -s /var/log/spamd.log --virtual-config-dir=/vhome/%u/spamassassin -r /var/run/spamassassin/spamd.pid -r /var/run/spamassassin/spamd.pid ( following are my logs ) Fri Feb 29 00:28:21 2008 [20110] info: prefork: child states: II Fri Feb 29 00:28:53 2008 [20110] info: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down Fri Feb 29 00:28:54 2008 [20180] info: logger: removing stderr method Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.2.4) Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: spamd: server pid: 20182 Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 20187 Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 20188 Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: prefork: child states: IS Fri Feb 29 00:28:57 2008 [20182] info: prefork: child states: II But now the mails are not being scanned , any idea why is this happening ? thanks a lot !! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com