SpamAssassin 3.0.3 errors - connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed

[Mick Szucs <mi...@magma.ca>]

I'm running spamassassin 3.0.3 as a "proxy" on three mail servers.  This 
morning at 2am one of the three (but not the other two) started spewing 
a lot of 

spamc[8000]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 
of 3)

and did not identify any messages as spam until a user complained and I 
restarted spamd a few minutes ago.

Any ideas as to what's going on and what I can do to keep it from 
happening again?  As a kludge for now I'm going to have cron restart 
spamd every few hours.

Mick