I can not start spamd (spamassassin daemon)

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#1

I’m trying to set up email in my laptop in the same manner than my
desktop. One step is to start up the spamd daemon, but I can’t:


> minas-tirith:~ # rcspamd start
> Starting spamd                                                                       done
> minas-tirith:~ # child process [17127] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 2589.
>
> minas-tirith:~ #

The source code lines mentioned are those that print the error message,
not the ones that produce the error. Nothing informative there.


The mail log produces these entries:

<2.6> 2012-12-16 14:16:09 minas-tirith spamd 17124 - - logger: removing stderr method
<2.4> 2012-12-16 14:16:09 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - - config: could not find site rules directory
<2.3> 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - - check: no loaded plugin implements ‘check_main’: cannot scan!
<2.3> 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - - Check the necessary ‘.pre’ files are in the config directory.
<2.3> 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17124 - - child process [17127] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 2589.

It seems it needs some files in the config directory, which I have doubt
to know which it is, or how to generate those files.

The init script does this:


startproc -p $PIDFILE $SPAMD_BIN $SPAMD_ARGS -r $PIDFILE

where:

SPAMD_ARGS="-d -c -L"
PIDFILE=/var/run/spamd.pid
SPAMD_BIN=/usr/sbin/spamd

and the switches are:


-d, --daemonize                   Daemonize
-c, --create-prefs                Create user preferences files
-L, --local                       Use local tests only (no DNS)

I have not modified any file yet, so those are the defaults.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#2

Hi, this probably won’t help since I don’t know a thing about spamd, but from this script : http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MSERGEANT/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.43/spamd/suse-rc-script.sh i gathered that spamd needs a file called /var/run/spamd.pid. Since I don’t use spamd, I don’t have that on my system, it it there on yours? HTH Lenwolf

#3

On 2012-12-17 08:06, lenwolf wrote:
>
> Hi, this probably won’t help since I don’t know a thing about spamd,
> but from this script : http://tinyurl.com/d49sdyv i gathered that spamd
> needs a file called /var/run/spamd.pid. Since I don’t use spamd, I
> don’t have that on my system, it it there on yours? HTH Lenwolf

No, that file is created when spamd is running. It is a text file with
only a number in it, the PID of the process. It is an old method
programmers use to locate daemons.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#4

On 2012-12-16 14:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> The mail log produces these entries:
>
>


&gt;&gt; &lt;2.6&gt; 2012-12-16 14:16:09 minas-tirith spamd 17124 - -  logger: removing stderr method
&gt;&gt; &lt;2.4&gt; 2012-12-16 14:16:09 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - -  config: could not find site rules directory
&gt;&gt; &lt;2.3&gt; 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - -  check: no loaded plugin implements 'check_main': cannot scan!
&gt;&gt; &lt;2.3&gt; 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17127 - -  Check the necessary '.pre' files are in the config directory.
&gt;&gt; &lt;2.3&gt; 2012-12-16 14:16:10 minas-tirith spamd 17124 - -  child process [17127] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 2589.
&gt;
&gt; It seems it needs some files in the config directory, which I have doubt
&gt; to know which it is, or how to generate those files.


The problem was that the directory /etc/mail/spamassassin/* did not
exist. It belongs to package perl-Mail-SpamAssassin, which was
installed, but the files were missing. Solution was to install it again.
The solution was found with help from the mail list.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith))