>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:02 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd >stops running!? > > >Will anyone please help me? > > I've recently had a working sitewide install of spamassassin >stop working >and it's very upsetting! :( > >Many thanks. > >hugh >-------------------------------- > >-- My problem: *snip* >-- My setup: > >Red Hat 7.3 >SA 2.64 (site wide install using /etc/procmailrc - see below) >Perl 5.6.1 > >-- Contents of /etc/procmailrc: > >DROPPRIVS=yes >:0fw >| /usr/bin/spamc -f > >-- From /var/log/maillog > >Sep 17 11:20:24 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd >at 127.0.0.1 >failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused >Sep 17 11:20:25 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd >at 127.0.0.1 >failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused >Sep 17 11:20:26 wibble spamc[6273]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd >at 127.0.0.1 >failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused >Sep 17 11:20:27 wibble spamc[6273]: connection attempt to spamd aborted >after 3 retries
It might be a permissions problem. Can you call spamc with the -u and a particular user with permissions? --Chris
