Got these errors in maillog on a postfix+spamc/spamd Linux RedHat ES3
installation. Looks like this issue has not been fixed in 3.1.7,
targeted for 3.1.9?
Could it be that the system runs out of file descriptors? Don't think so...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
8431 4030 314564
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
314564
Here's an excerpt from maillog. Process 31633 is the spamd master.
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: child states: BIIBBIB
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: spamd: handled cleanup of child
pid 5654 due to SIGCHLD
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: child states: BIIBBB
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: syswrite() on closed filehandle
GEN452736 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/IO/Handle.pm line 447.
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: Use of uninitialized value in
concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site_per
l/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 419.
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: killing rogue child
330, failed to write on fd :
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: killing failed child
330 fd=undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mai
l/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 137.
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: killed child 330
Dec 18 11:20:39 srv-asgw02 spamd[31633]: prefork: child states: BKBBBI
Paolo
