Alex, > > I have a fedora15 server with amavisd-new-2.6.6-1 and > > spamassassin-3.3.2-7 and occasionally amavisd just exits > > and has to be restarted.
> > Apr 20 10:38:33 mail amavis[8442]: > > logging initialized, log level 2, syslog: amavis.mail > > Apr 20 10:38:33 mail amavis[8442]: > > Valid PID file (younger than sys uptime 14 6:55:00) > The second event looks loks like a normal restart: the process > 17612 is shutting down, while the new 8442 is starting. > Something is sending a restart signal to amavisd, perhaps > some cron job or a log file rotator. P.S.: if the new starting process (like the 8442 from your log) does not come up but fails during a start, a possible reason is that some files (like a config file or DKIM keys file) is too strongly protected, so a start as root succeeds, but a start with reduced privileges fails. To troubeshoot this, run one instance of amavisd non-daemonized, e.g.: # amavisd foreground or even: # amavisd debug then request its restart from another concole, e.g.: # amavisd reload and also (later): # amavisd restart With some luck this will reproduce the problem, while showing a failure reason on the first terminal. Mark
