On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 22:31 +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> p...@rick
>
Just to be clear - this is a proper hardware server, and not a VPS of
some kind?
