Spamassassin fails to start

[John Williams <jo...@yahoo.com>]

I'm running spam assassin on Fedora 21.  It installed fine and was working.  Then I wanted to start creating procmail rules to move spam labeled email to different folders and SA broke.  I removed all the procmail configuration but SA is still broke.


When I start it on the command line I get the following: 

[root@myhost ~]# systemctl status spamassassin.service  -l
● spamassassin.service - Spamassassin daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2015-03-11 23:21:16 EDT; 1 day 9h ago
  Process: 1333 ExecStart=/usr/bin/spamd $SPAMDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1330 ExecStartPre=/sbin/portrelease spamd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1333 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost spamd[1335]: spamd: server pid: 1335
Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost spamd[1335]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 1336
Mar 11 23:21:16 mahost spamd[1335]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 1337
Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost spamd[1335]: prefork: child states: IS
Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost spamd[1335]: prefork: child states: II
Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for spamassassin.service
Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Spamassassin daemon.
Mar 11 23:21:16 mahost systemd[1]: Unit spamassassin.service entered failed state.

Mar 11 23:21:16 myhost systemd[1]: spamassassin.service failed.


Here is a snippet from /var/log/messages

Mar 13 14:01:01 myhost systemd: Received SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 4284 (kill).
Mar 13 14:46:53 myhost systemd: start request repeated too quickly for spamassassin.service
Mar 13 14:46:53 myhost systemd: Failed to start Spamassassin daemon.
Mar 13 14:46:53 myhost systemd: Unit spamassassin.service entered failed state.
Mar 13 14:46:53 mahost systemd: spamassassin.service failed.


Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Spamassassin fails to start

[John Williams <jo...@yahoo.com>]

That was it!!  Thanks so much!! 


----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com>
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Cc: John Williams <jo...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Spamassassin fails to start

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:19:37 +0000 (UTC)

John Williams <jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm running spam assassin on Fedora 21.  It installed fine and was
> working.  Then I wanted to start creating procmail rules to move spam
> labeled email to different folders and SA broke.  I removed all the
> procmail configuration but SA is still broke.

...snip...

> Any idea what the problem is?

See: /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.RHEL.Fedora

most likely you have '-d' in your /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin file?
remove that and hopefully it should start working. 

kevin

Re: Spamassassin fails to start

[Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com>]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:19:37 +0000 (UTC)
John Williams <jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm running spam assassin on Fedora 21.  It installed fine and was
> working.  Then I wanted to start creating procmail rules to move spam
> labeled email to different folders and SA broke.  I removed all the
> procmail configuration but SA is still broke.

...snip...
 
> Any idea what the problem is?

See: /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.RHEL.Fedora

most likely you have '-d' in your /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin file?
remove that and hopefully it should start working. 

kevin