Re: Amavisd does not start

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.

[root@bilbo init.d]# . /etc/rc.d/init.d//functions
[root@bilbo init.d]# . /etc/sysconfig/network

[root@bilbo init.d]# retval=0
[root@bilbo init.d]# action $"Starting amavisd: " amavisd -c amavisd

[1] 7929                                                   [FAILED]

                                                          [  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]#

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Chris Jones