endless respawning with SA enabled

[Tal Kelrich]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:29:00 +0000, Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>At 10:59 11/03/2003, you wrote:
>> > I've recently upgraded to mailscanner 4.13, and SA 2.50
>> > (patched) now, whenever I enable SA, mailscanner respawns
>> > endlessly, without any processing done. works perfectly when
>> > disabled. as far as I can tell, it quits sometime in the SA
>> > init stage, but I still haven't looked too deeply there.
>> >
>>
>>I noticed a problem similar to this last week and upon
>>investigation I found the following settings (in
>>spam.assassin.prefs.conf) to help greatly:
>>
>># Settings taken from
>>#
>>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0208&L=mailscanner&P=R9717&I=
>>-3
>># SpamAssassin Performance Tips (isp-list at TULSACONNECT.COM)
>>
>># By default, spamassassin will change the Content-type: header of
>># suspected spam to "text/plain". This is a safety feature. If you
>># prefer to leave the Content-type header alone, set this to 0.
>>#
>>defang_mime 0
>>
>># By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks.  If your ISP already
>># does this, set this to 1.
>>#
>>skip_rbl_checks 1
>>
>># only check for a valid MX record once
>>check_mx_attempts 1
>>
>>Andy
>
>What does your maillog say?
>Does the user you are using to run MailScanner have a real home >directory?
>The SpamAssassin init code fails if there isn't a home directory it can
>write to. Most commonly a problem when people are using Exim (as they run
>as non-root).
>

I did some more tests, and it looks like it's dieing in SA.pm in compile_now (dropped log messages in there, no AWL, makes the object, stops at compile_now)
when run in debug mode, no errors or anything, just quits.
user is root, has a home, and SA works on it's own.

Tal