SpamAssassin timed out

[Alex Neuman]

1. Not all processes die right away. You'll always see a few extra processes
which are "on their way out"

2. One of your RBL's is timing out. Install a caching nameserver to reduce
the amount of DNS traffic generated by your box.

3. clamavmodule is listed in the file called virus.scanners.conf, so you
probably upgraded from an old version that didn't support clamavmodule. Add
the following:
clamavmodule    /bin/false                              /tmp
(separated by tabs)

... to your virus.scanners.conf, and check the docs/faq/maq. You might have
other files lying around, as well as non-existant settings missing from
mailscanner.conf and other files.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Eric Junker
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:13 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: SpamAssassin timed out


I am running MailScanner 4.30, SpamAssassin 2.63 on FreeBSD 5.2. Recently I
have seen errors such as:

SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, failure 2 of 20.

> ps auxwww | grep MailScanner | wc -l
      12

There are 12 instances of MailScanner but I have it set in MailScanner.conf
to only run 5 instances. Why aren't they being killed correctly?

Here is part of the output of spamassassin -D --lint

debug: all '*To' addrs:
debug: RBL: success for 0 of 1 queries
debug: RBL: timeout for rfci-dsn after 26 seconds
debug: running meta tests; score so far=3.076
debug: is spam? score=3.076 required=5
tests=DATE_MISSING,DCC_CHECK,NO_REAL_NAME

I assume this is why SA is timing out. How can I figure out why the RBL is
timing out?

I also have errors like this:
May 24 13:46:05 aldebaran MailScanner[11145]: Virus scanner "clamavmodule"
not found in virus.scanners.conf file. Please check your spelling in "Virus
Scanners =" line of MailScanner.conf

cpan> install Mail::ClamAV
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Mon, 24 May 2004 11:34:13 GMT
CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Mail::ClamAV is up to date.

The module is installed. Why would it not be able to find clamavmodule? Do
both of these errors indicate that I have something wrong with my
installation of perl? I am using perl 5.6.1

Thanks,
-EJ

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