Debugging SA timeouts

[Martin Hepworth]

Rick

ta, that'll do the job - sigh, need more coffee :-)



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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Rick Cooper wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>>Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:56 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Debugging SA timeouts
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>Anyone got any good ways of debugging SA timeouts and
>>finding out whats
>>going on..
>>
>>apart from the obvious of using MS and SA debug mode
>>in MailScanner.conf!!!
>
>
> Change to the home dir of the user that runs SA in your MS config
> su to that user (you don't *have* to run as the normal SA user
> but it will wack out your bayes tests if you don't)
>
> spamassassin -D -p
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint &> sa.rpt
>
> Look in the sa.rpt. I would be looking for the rbl, razor
> timeouts and so forth
>
> If all looks well switch get a copy of an email and, and also as
> the user that normally runs SA
>
> spamassassin -D -p /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> < EMAILFILENAME &> sa.rpt
>
> and look at the output. It will give you line by line out of what
> SA is doing and what the results are. I recently lowered my razor
> timeout because they were getting a bit flakey now and then and
> razor, dcc, pyzor and rbl time outs in spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> should all be around 5 (especially if you are running a caching
> name service)
>
>
>
>
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>>Snr Systems Administrator
>>Solid State Logic
>>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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