On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:04:17 +0200 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > Hi! > > On Mit, 2013-09-18 at 06:46 -0400, David Spector wrote: > [...] > > LFD is a monitor that detects processes that have been running too > > long. That's about all it does. > > "spamd" is the daemon of SpamAssassin which actually does the job. And > it is the purpose of a Unix-daemon to run long - ideally from boot up > until machine shutdown (years later ....) without restart.
It's actually a child process, which isn't supposed to run forever. However, from Google: https://billing.handsonwebhosting.com/knowledgebase/250/Suspicious-spamd-child-Process-Emails-From-CSF-Firewall-Software.html
