On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:29:54PM +0200, Richard Mayhew wrote: > Hi All, > > I seem to have narrowed the problem down to this. I did a strace on the > main spamd process and watched it for sometime. > Just before the spamd dies, I get this output. Bearing in mind nothing > is logged when spamd is in debug mode. > > Going through it as best I can see it seems to be referring to a LOCALE > file which does not exist. > What seems strange is that its happening on both systems, both Linux and > FreeBSD. I can't see why these files would be missing. > > Can anyone shed some light on to this?
I haven't kept the earlier messages in the thread, but I suspect the locale stuff is a bit of a red herring. It's trying to find appropriate error messages, but should still fall back to the standard ones. The trace seems to show a connection that closed early, which it's trying to report. Is it possible something is making connections to spamd's port and then exiting without doing a scan ? That is known to cause spamd to die. It may be innocent and inadvertent (perhaps you have something monitoring it), or it may be down to an nmap or similar scan. You could tcpdump connections to port 783 to check this out. Nick
