On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:43:04 -0600 The Doctor wrote: > Suddenly overnight, spamassassin died on one of my FreeBSD servers > and attempts to get it back up are failing.
> root@gallifrey:~ # ps axww | egrep spamd > 97595 - Rs 0:09.86 /usr/local/bin/perl -T > -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd -d -D > --max-children=5 --max-conn-per-child=5 --user-config > --syslog=/var/log/spamd.log --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid > --listen-ip=204.209.81.3 --port=783 -A > 204.209.81.1,204.209.81.3,127.0.0.1 97589 1 S > 0:00.76 /usr/local/bin/perl -T -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u spamd > -H /var/spool/spamd -d -D --max-children=5 --max-conn-per-child=5 > --user-config --syslog=/var/log/spamd.log > --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid --listen-ip=204.209.81.3 --port=783 -A > 204.209.81.1,204.209.81.3,127.0.0.1 97608 1 S+ 0:00.00 egrep > spamd > It looks like you have two parent processes and no children. Try killing them manually, delete the pid file, and then start it up.
