Re: spamass-milter -- connection refused error (random lockup)

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 22), Chan, Wilson said:
> I have spamass-milter running but every once in a while it would lock
> up and I would see a connection refused error. Changing the
> sendmail.mc file times to 20m for all parameters helped with the
> random crashes but im not sure what adverse affects it's causing by
> these changes. The only way to get SA milter running again is to
> restart the service. Anyone else experiencing this same problem and
> is there a fix? Thanks!

If spamass-milter is crashing, try and get a core dump and a stack
trace.
 
> /var/log/maillog
> 
> May 22 10:41:08 localhost sendmail[31120]: k4MKf8dD031120: Milter 
> (spamassassin): to error state
> May 22 10:41:08 localhost sendmail[31119]: k4MKf84A031119: Milter 
> (spamassassin): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by 
> /var/run/spamass.sock
> 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> 
> ***Changed all settings to 20m- It helped with the random lockups***
> 
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, 
> F=,T=C:20m;S:20m;R:20m;E:20m')dnl

Extending the timeout shouldn't make a difference.  When you say
lockup, do you mean mail stops being delivered, or what?

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        Dan Nelson
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