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
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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