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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Tim Jordan <ti...@pcs-alaska.com> on 2005/11/22 04:08:19 UTC

SpamdForkScaling error

Hello everyone,
This is my first post to the SA mailing list.  I hope I'm proceeding
correctly.  I noticed that my mail server seems to be running slow.  I
tailed the syslog and found the error below.  I included the syslog
entry for the test message I sent to my email server.

I'm hoping someone can advise so I can learn the cause and solution of
this problem.


Thank you,
Tim Jordan

> Nov 21 17:32:41 mail qmail-scanner[7516]:
> Clear:RC:0(206.190.48.235):SA:0(?/?): 214.9031 1162
> help_me_tim@yahoo.com tim@pcs-alaska.com is_mail_working?
> <20...@web52712.mail.yahoo.com>
> 1132626546.7518-0.mail.pcs-alaska.com:121 orig-mail             
> .pcs-alaska.com11326265467757516:1162


> Nov 21 17:32:45 mail spamd[1579]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
> retrying... at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line
> 554.
> Nov 21 17:33:20 mail last message repeated 7 times

Re: SpamdForkScaling error

Posted by Tim Jordan <ti...@pcs-alaska.com>.

Johann Spies wrote:

>Hallo Tim,
>
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:08:19PM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote:
>
>  
>
>>This is my first post to the SA mailing list.  I hope I'm proceeding
>>correctly.  I noticed that my mail server seems to be running slow.  I
>>tailed the syslog and found the error below.  I included the syslog
>>entry for the test message I sent to my email server.
>>
>>I'm hoping someone can advise so I can learn the cause and solution of
>>this problem.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Nov 21 17:32:45 mail spamd[1579]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
>>>retrying... at
>>>/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line
>>>554.
>>>Nov 21 17:33:20 mail last message repeated 7 times
>>>      
>>>
>
>Who is the owner of "spamd" ?  Does that owner have all the necessary
>permissions to write in the directory where spamd wants to work?
>
>Regards
>Johann
>  
>
Thank you for your reponse.
The owner of spamd is user spamd who has permissions:
-r--r--r--  1 spamd staff 19301 2005-08-11 16:38 SpamdForkScaling.pm

Tim

Re: SpamdForkScaling error

Posted by Johann Spies <js...@sun.ac.za>.

Hallo Tim,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:08:19PM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote:

> This is my first post to the SA mailing list.  I hope I'm proceeding
> correctly.  I noticed that my mail server seems to be running slow.  I
> tailed the syslog and found the error below.  I included the syslog
> entry for the test message I sent to my email server.
> 
> I'm hoping someone can advise so I can learn the cause and solution of
> this problem.
> 
> > Nov 21 17:32:45 mail spamd[1579]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
> > retrying... at
> > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line
> > 554.
> > Nov 21 17:33:20 mail last message repeated 7 times

Who is the owner of "spamd" ?  Does that owner have all the necessary
permissions to write in the directory where spamd wants to work?

Regards
Johann
-- 
Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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