Justin Willmert wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
Justin Willmert wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 19 juillet 2006 à 21:08 +0100, Chris Jones a écrit :
I have chosen to install amavis-new with my FC5 installation.
This also loads clamav. However, when I look at the amavis
service, I get the response "amavisd dead but subsys locked". I
have checked everything I can think of, but cannot get amavisd to
start. Does anyone here have any suggestions?
1. remove the dangling lock
2. start amavis
3. take a peek in /var/log/maillog
I looked for the dangling lock. However, I can find nothing. I
would expect to find it (with amavisd running) at /var/run/amavisd/
along with the pid file, but there is nothing. Where else should I
look?
Try looking in /var/lock/subsys.
I have tried that. I removed the hanging lock, which when checked,
stopped amavisd. However, on starting amavisd, apparently
successfully, after checking the status, amavisd was again dead but
subsys locked.
I seem to be going around in circles. HOW do I correct this???
I guess next I'd suggest looking at the init.d file and seeing what it
is doing. I do it sometimes when something isn't working right and try
to recreate the steps by hand, seeing where it goes wrong. Sometimes
it leads me to the problem area where I can finally get an idea of
what should be changed.
Following your suggestion, I put the following commands through in a
terminal session:-
[root@bilbo init.d]# . /etc/rc.d/init.d//functions
[root@bilbo init.d]# . /etc/sysconfig/network
[root@bilbo init.d]# [ -e /etc/sysconfig/amavisd ] && .
/etc/sysconfig/amavisd
[root@bilbo init.d]# retval=0
[root@bilbo init.d]# action $"Starting amavisd: " amavisd -c amavisd
Starting amavisd: Error reading config file "amavisd": No such file or
directory at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 1205.
[1] 7929 [FAILED]
[root@bilbo init.d]# action $"Starting amavisd: " amavisd -c
/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf
Starting amavisd: [1]+ Done [ -w /var/gdm/.gdmfifo
] && echo "BOOTUP_ERRORS" >/var/gdm/.gdmfifo
[ OK ]
[root@bilbo init.d]# retval=$?
[root@bilbo init.d]# [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/amavisd
[root@bilbo init.d]# echo
[root@bilbo init.d]# service amavisd status
amavisd (pid 7937 7936 7934) is running...
[root@bilbo init.d]#
I am even more puzzled. The normal 'service amavisd start', 'service
amavisd stop', and 'service amavisd restart' all fail for one reason or
another, yet this technique seems to do the job.
--
Chris Jones
