I've recently added a line to my crontab which calls a script to run
sa-update and restart spamd if new rules are found. Since doing that,
I'm noticing that the restart doesn't usually work. It returns this
error: "Stopping SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: No spamd found
running; none killed."
Digging into it this morning, I see that manually restarting spamd
with the init script gives the same result. Yet spamd is running:
sandman:/home/owen/spam# /etc/init.d/spamassassin reload
Reloading SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: No spamd found running;
none killed.
sandman:/home/owen/spam# ps aux | grep spamd
root 17036 0.5 2.1 50188 45592 ? SNs 09:31 0:01 /usr/
local/bin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -u
bayes -g spamassassin -s /var/log/spamd.log -d --pidfile=/var/run/
spamd.pid
Maybe the pidfile isn't there or has the wrong value? Nope:
sandman:/home/owen/spam# cat /var/run/spamd.pid
17036
Maybe the init script is broken and referencing the wrong pidfile
location? Nope:
NAME=spamd
SNAME=spamassassin
DESC="SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon"
PIDFILE="/var/run/$NAME.pid"
So... what's the problem? It seems I can only restart spamd now by
manually killing it. I never used to have this issue...
