RE: spamd as root-children Crashing

[Jean-Paul Natola <jn...@familycareintl.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:18:20AM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> I know it not recommended to run spamd as root-, however during the install

Really?  Where do you get that impression?  Running it as root is the
default and how most people use it.  However, running as few processes as
root is good for security, and depending on how you setup SpamAssassin,
you could definitely set it to not run as root.  It really depends what
you're trying to do.

> when I got the blue gui screen - it said "run spamd as root"- recommended"
> Question is why does it say recommended , also how do I undo that ?


I didn't know if I should start a new thread or if i=this is somehow related-
but spamd is timing out constantly-

I think too many spamd or children are running-

007-04-16 13:44:21 1HdVDP-0000Kv-Ci spam acl condition: error reading from
spamd socket: Operation timed out
2007-04-16 13:44:29 1HdVDO-0000Kt-UX spam acl condition: error reading from
spamd socket: Operation timed out
2007-04-16 13:44:35 1HdVDm-0000Ky-FB spam acl condition: error reading from
spamd socket: Operation timed out
2007-04-16 13:44:39 1HdV7z-0000KB-6q spam acl condition: error reading from
spamd socket: Operation timed out
2007-04-16 13:44:53 1HdV8C-0000KD-HM spam acl condition: error reading from
spamd socket: Operation timed out

Here's the children stats- how can I control this

350 prefork: child states: BBBBB
  77 prefork: child states: II
  33 prefork: child states: BBBB
  27 prefork: child states: BBB
  23 prefork: child states: BBBBI
  17 prefork: child states: III
  17 prefork: child states: IB
  17 prefork: child states: BB
  16 prefork: child states: BII
  15 prefork: child states: BBBIB
  14 prefork: child states: BBBI
  12 prefork: child states: IBI
  12 prefork: child states: BIII
  12 prefork: child states: BI
  12 prefork: child states: BBIBB
  11 prefork: child states: IIB
  10 prefork: child states: BIBI
  10 prefork: child states: BIBBB
   9 prefork: child states: BBIIB
   9 prefork: child states: BBBII
   8 prefork: child states: IIBI
   8 prefork: child states: IBBI
   8 prefork: child states: BBII
   7 prefork: child states: IBBIB
   7 prefork: child states: BIBBI
   7 prefork: child states: BBI
   6 prefork: child states: IIBB
   6 prefork: child states: IBBBB