sendmail / spamassassin services

[Andy Norris]

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Hi Denis,

I rebooted the server. Spamd is not running, and I find this in the logs:

Dec 10 15:38:28 tireswing spamc[6529]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1 
failed, retrying (1/3): Connection refused

Should I just ignore this? Is it working okay?

Thanks for your help,

Andy


At 03:26 pm 2004-12-10, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>Andy Norris wrote:
>
>>I'm running MailScanner 4.36.4.
>>
>>Last week the list educated me that sendmail should not be running on its
>>own, and neither should spamassassin. I upgraded to spamassassin 3.0.1, but
>>what I'm seeing in the maillog is the connection to spamd being refused.
>>
>>So we're back to virtually no spam filtering...
>>
>>Dec 10 13:44:40 tireswing spamc[22597]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1
>>failed, retrying (1/3): Connection refused
>>Dec 10 13:44:41 tireswing spamc[22597]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1
>>failed, retrying (2/3): Connection refused
>>Dec 10 13:44:42 tireswing spamc[22597]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1
>>failed, retrying (3/3): Connection refused
>>
>>This from the logs.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>
>Andy,
>
>MailScanner does not use spamc/spamd.  If you are running those pleas stop 
>them.
>
>Denis
>
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