HI Colin, if teh daemon is actually crashing, then there's a bug chance that it's unable to log anything useful about the crash. You could try to use strace ar any other generic debug tools to find out what is actually happening.
On 04/26/2013 01:53 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to solve another problem, I inadvertently broke my dspam installation > on my FreeBSD server. The daemon is now crashing when postfix tries to pipe > a message to it. > > Past on past experience, I suspect it is a permissions problem with the > /var/db/dspam/data dirs, but as far as I can see everything is configured > properly. > > How do I determine what is going wrong? > > I have recompiled dspam with debugging enabled, set debugging on in > /etc/rc.conf, and it is now outputting the log dir: > > $ ls -lrt /var/log/dspam > total 624 > -rw-rw---- 1 root mail 12550 Apr 26 13:28 dspam.debug > -rw-rw---- 1 root mail 561494 Apr 26 13:33 dspam.messages > > But the debug log doesn't tell me why dspam is failing. > > I try starting it non-daemonized this way with the hope of some feedback in > the terminal: > > # dspam --debug & > > but it won't start. Starting the normal way under FreeBSD works. > > I'm looking for a nice clear error message from dspam about why it is > failing, and I am sure it is producing one... but where? > > Running v3.9.0. > > Thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://dspam-users.2290790.n4.nabble.com/debugging-dspam-tp4641287.html > Sent from the dspam users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr > _______________________________________________ > Dspam-user mailing list > Dspam-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user >
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