I just installed Spamassassin today on my Postfix email server and don't understand why I am getting errors in my logs. It's not working and I can't start the service for some reason...
Mar 4 15:42:37 mail spamc[1303]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused Mar 4 15:42:38 mail spamc[1303]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused Mar 4 15:42:39 mail spamc[1303]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Mar 4 15:42:40 mail spamc[1303]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/pickup[1295]: D4DFD83F: uid=5001 from=<[email protected]> Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/cleanup[1301]: D4DFD83F: message-id=<[email protected]> Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/qmgr[1146]: 6DCEE83B: removed Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/pipe[1302]: 6DCEE83B: to=<car...@iamghost>, relay=spamassassin, delay=3.9, delays=0.75/0.01/0/3.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via spamassassin service) Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/qmgr[1146]: D4DFD83F: from=<[email protected]>, size=1656, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/local[1306]: D4DFD83F: to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=0.17, delays=0.12/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) Mar 4 15:42:40 mail postfix/qmgr[1146]: D4DFD83F: removed Mar 4 15:43:07 mail postfix/smtpd[1297]: disconnect from mail-fx0-f209.google.com[209.85.220.209] I am unable to start the spamassassin service daemon because I get the following error: [r...@mail ~]# /etc/rc.d/spamd restart :: Stopping spamd [FAIL] :: Starting spamd [BUSY] child process [1329] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/spamd line 2536. [FAIL] I followed the installation instructions exactly so I don't know why Postfix and SpamAssassin are not working together. Anyone have any ideas?
