On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Craig Baird wrote: > I have an old Redhat box that started doing this a while back. After a lot of > hair pulling, I finally figured out that the problem was related to spam > floods, but seemed to be caused by the syslog daemon.
That's actually not a bad suggestion; the OP should check to make sure that whatever log SpamAssassin is going to (probably the maillog) is asynchronous (is prefixed with a "-"), like this: mail.* -/var/log/maillog That's the default on most Linuxes, but if you've changed that, or if you're filtering SpamAssassin stuff to a different log, that could cause the problems. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
