I've been using amavisd-new with postfix for several years with no problems until this new installation I just setup. There are now two problems, that are probably inter-related.
Problem 1: after an 'amavisd reload' or 'amavisd stop' command, not all child processes die. The main server thread exits and some children may exit, but often one or more children hang around. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps ax |grep amavisd 30170 ? Ss 0:13 amavisd (master) 31249 ? R 876:43 amavisd (ch4-31249-04) 817 ? S 0:06 amavisd (ch6-avail) 916 ? S 0:03 amavisd (ch4-avail) 930 ? S 0:01 amavisd (ch4-avail) 934 ? S 0:01 amavisd (ch4-avail) 936 ? S 0:01 amavisd (ch3-avail) 937 ? S 0:00 amavisd (ch2-avail) 943 ? S 0:01 amavisd (ch2-avail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# amavisd reload Daemon [30170] terminated by SIGTERM, waiting for dust to settle... becoming a new daemon... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps ax |grep amavisd 31249 ? R 877:28 amavisd (ch4-31249-04) 989 ? Ss 0:03 amavisd (master) 991 ? R 0:00 amavisd (ch1-00991-01) 992 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 993 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 994 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 995 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 996 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 997 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) 998 ? S 0:00 amavisd (virgin child) Note that 31249 is still hanging around. A manual 'kill -TERM' will not make it go away. I have to use 'kill -9' to zap it. Problem 2: Sometimes, but not always, after an 'amavisd reload', the communications between amavisd and postfix get hosed. The amavisd process list will show the master and all virgin children and the mail logs will show postfix unable to connect to the content filter on 127.0.0.1:10025. I can manually telnet to 127.0.0.1:10025 and get a prompt from amavisd. A 'postfix stop; postfix start' clears up this problem. The content filter in postfix is configured for smtp-filter on 127.0.0.1:10025 with the other end smtpd on 127.0.0.1:10026. Software versions are: amavisd-new-2.4.3 (also happened with 2.4.2) postfix-2.3.3 perl-5.8.8 spamassassin-3.1.7 clamav-0.88.5 I looked in the mailing list archives and the FAQs, etc., and didn't find anything that described this particular problem. Has anyone seen anything similar? If you think it might be a postfix problem, let me know and I can repost the message on that list. -Bill Randle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/