> -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Paul Natola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 12:09 p.m. > To: SpamAssassin > Subject: Plugin eval failed > > Hi all, > > I upgraded to sa 3.2.4 > > And I've been restarting spamd every 15 minutes just to keep mail coming > in, > > This is what is constantly coming up in the maillog > > > plugin: eval failed: child processing timeout at /usr/local/bin/spamd line > 1259. > > Any help would be appreciated > > Running > > Freebsd 6.2 > SA 3.2.4 > Exim 4.68 > Perl 5.8.8 > Clamav 92.1 > > > > JP
Hi JP, I had this problem when I upgraded to 3.2.3 temporarily, and for a while after the downgrade to 3.1.7. I had not done enough research and found that I had installed 3.2.3 with a different method than what the original package was installed with. This caused install paths to change for various files, and I ended up with 2 different versions of some files spread over the system. This was causing all sorts of errors, but mainly the having to restart SA constantly as it was falling over. Whilst this may not be your issue, it is worth checking that all of your .cf and pre files are sane, as well as any Perl CPAN modules. I removed all of my CPAN modules, and installed them via apt-get in Debian instead. I then removed all instances of every Spamassassin file on the system, and reinstalled from scratch. (keeping local.cf and user_prefs of course). Hope this is some help, Cheers, Mike
