I also notice this error in the maillog spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
raulbe wrote: > > I am using sendmail as my mta > > > # rpm -q sendmail > sendmail-8.13.1-3.2.el4 > > > What wierd is that the error clears up and then starts again after a > while. Also I noticed we are getting hit with a considerable amount of > spam. Plus I think our spamassassin version is old > > # rpm -q spamassassin > spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4 > > > > > > > > Benny Pedersen wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, June 18, 2008 20:36, raulbe wrote: >> >>> What I did was edit etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and up the max from 8 to >>> 10 >>> now that worked for a while but now the error has returned. What could >>> be >>> causing the server not to be able to handle all the processes? >> >> problem might be that you mta accepts to much spam, or even to much >> connections that your spamd cant handle at once :/ >> >> tell us what mta you use >> >> >> Benny Pedersen >> Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098 >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/prefork-error-tp17989187p18013025.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.