Ron McKeating schrieb:
> I am still frequently getting an error from our cron job. The cron entry
> is
>
> service spamd restart
>
> and the log entry is
>
> Feb 4 14:15:00 bill spamd: spamd shutdown succeeded
> Feb 4 14:15:01 bill spamd: Could not create INET socket on
> 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET: Address already
> in use)
> Feb 4 14:15:01 bill spamd: spamd startup failed
[snip]
> If I manually type service spamd restart all seems to be ok ,of course
> the shut down fails as it never started from the cron job so I get
>
> [root@bill exim]# service spamd restart
> Shutting down spamd: [FAILED]
> Starting spamd: [ OK ]
>
> Any thoughts? we have two mail setups and this only occurs on one of
> them. (A dell 2650 ,the old dell 2550 running same version of everything
> does not get the problem).
Hi Ron,
for what it's worth, I'm seeing something similar here on FreeBSD v4.10
and v4.11, both with SA v2.64 and v3.0.2. The only way to stop spamd is
to kill the process. Stopping it via the rc script simply does not work,
not even from the commandline.
Patrick
