Falko, I followed your ISP setup in Etch... and upgraded succesfully to Lenny. Now, a year later, I "dist-upgraded" to squeeze and have a problem. My old cron was "sa-update --nogpg && /etc/init.d/spamd restart" That now fails, since there is no "/etc/init.d/spamd" script. When I type # "spamd" or "spamd stop" I get exactly 10 iterations of : "warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use" If I kill all spamd processes, then try "spamd start" I get Aug 3 22:18:37.701 [18002] info: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.3.1) Aug 3 22:18:37.702 [18002] info: spamd: server pid: 18002 Aug 3 22:18:37.704 [18002] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 18004 Aug 3 22:18:37.708 [18002] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 18005 Aug 3 22:18:37.710 [18002] info: prefork: child states: II and the cursor hangs here..... if I hit <ctrl>-C I get Aug 3 22:18:58.180 [18002] info: spamd: server killed by SIGINT, shutting down and the thing is dead again.... After days of searching and reading, I can find no startup script or explanation. In Squeeze, what is the proper way to set up a daemon of sa I am using your ISPConfig... Postfix, Amavis, Dovecot, SA, Squirrelmail, etc. Vince Heuser Louisville, Ky. USA
Spamd script changed to spamassassin in Debian 6? Here's the relevant (I hope) listing of init.d: total 448 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 1 10:31 . drwxr-xr-x. 98 root root 12288 Aug 5 07:01 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3664 Dec 16 2010 amavis -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7476 Mar 22 16:56 apache2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1071 Nov 23 2009 atd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9205 Jul 30 17:15 clamav-daemon -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8459 Jul 30 17:15 clamav-freshclam -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7114 Mar 2 2010 console-screen.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3753 Dec 18 2010 cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2832 Jun 12 07:31 dbus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5696 May 25 04:09 dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5717 Jun 28 2010 fail2ban -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1329 Jan 2 2008 halt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 17 13:51 .legacy-bootordering -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3649 Jan 1 2011 mtab.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2443 Aug 29 2010 openbsd-inetd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4840 May 4 17:30 postfix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1298 Jan 31 2010 procps -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4965 Mar 7 04:09 proftpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117 Jan 1 2011 rcS -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8065 Dec 19 2010 saslauthd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3286 Jan 1 2011 sendsigs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1891 Aug 9 2009 spamassassin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3704 Mar 31 2010 ssh I get that changing the cron to ".../init.d/spamassassin" will fix the startup problem. What I don't get is why it shouldn't be ".../spamd -d", and why the Debian dist-upgrade didn't take care of the cron entry... Thanks!!
1. it shouldn't be spamd -d .. because this way you're calling the daemon binary itself, and will not fork into the background, it'll stay in the foreground until you kill it (with f.e. CTRL-C). 2. The cron entry is something that you've added manually, the dist-upgrade will not change manually changed values/settings etc. You've added that entry, so it's you're responsibility to see if it still works.
Thanks for the advice! I sure don't remember doing that myself... No matter... I will gratefully follow your advice. Thanks!!
Grrr, true .. most people switch to daemonized to save some resources on a busy server. only downside with ispc2 was that you'll lose the ability to supply user defined preferences for SA Ah, you shouldn't run ispc2 anyway
