Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter <[email protected]>:
We regularly experience SA crashes on a Ubuntu Hardy machine. The setup is as
follows:
Postfix (2.5.1) -> SpamAssassin Milter (0.3.1-6) -> SpamAssassin
(3.2.4-1ubuntu1.1)
The milter is run like this:
/usr/sbin/spamass-milter -P /var/run/spamass/spamass.pid -f \
-p /var/spool/postfix/spamass/spamass.sock \
-u spamass-milter -i 127.0.0.1 -r 10
SpamAssassin is run like this:
/usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd -s local5 -u spamassassin \
--nouser-config --max-children 10 --debug=spamd -d \
--pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
It crashed again this weekend. This is what I found in the log:
Oct 29 08:01:51 mail01 spamd[10249]: spamd: fork: Cannot allocate
memory at /usr/sbin/spamd line 999.
Oct 29 08:01:53 mail01 spamd[301]: auto-whitelist: open of
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lo
ck.mail01.example.com.301 for
/nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or
directory
Oct 29 08:01:53 mail01 spamd[301]: spamd: clean message (1.1/5.0)
for singer-paf:65534 in 2.3 seconds, 28868 bytes.
Oct 29 08:01:53 mail01 spamd[301]: spamd: result: . 1 -
EXTRA_MPART_TYPE,HTML_MESSAGE,RDNS_NONE
scantime=2.3,size=28868,user=singer-paf,uid=65534,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost.localdomain,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=42576,mid=<[email protected]>,autolearn=no
Oct 29 08:01:53 mail01 spamd[301]: syswrite() to parent failed:
Broken pipe at
/usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 576.
Something that annoys me, is that it keeps complaining "cannot create tmp
lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/", while I keep it running as user
"spamassassin". I am purley speculating: Could this be in relation
to my crash
problem?
The home directory for the username spamassassin is probably set to
/nonexistant in the passwd file (or whatever it is in Ubuntu).
