Re: Problem with spamassassin/sendmail

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/spamass-milt-list/2003-04/msg00028.html>


John


Timothy Murphy wrote:

<posted & mailed>

Craig White wrote:

spamassassin seems to have stopped performing on my desktop.
I am getting the following 2-line message in /var/log/maillog :
===============================================================
Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341:
       Milter (spamassassin):
       local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe
Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341:
       Milter (spamassassin):
       to error state
===============================================================

...

I'm running Fedora-4, with spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4
and spamass-milter-0.3.0-8.fc4 ,

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

----
service spamass-milter restart

Thanks for the response, and for the suggestion.

I had tried this before, but I tried it again.
(I also restarted spamassassin and sendmail.)
However, I am still getting the message above repeatedly
in /var/log/maillog .
It is repeated every 10 minutes, which is the period
at which I collect email,
admittedly by the rather odd method of uucp (uucico),
but I don't think that should be a problem.

The message comes from sendmail,
and seems to suggest that sendmail does not like to open a socket
with local name /var/run/spamass.sock .

What does it mean to say that this is "unsafe"?

I notice that spamass-milter seems to have no problem
with /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock .

If anyone can throw enlightenment on this,
I shall be very grateful.