SpamAssassin timed out

[Julian Field]

At 21:12 24/05/2004, you wrote:
>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?

Because each of the MailScanner child processes forks off sub-processes to
do all sorts of things with timeouts.


>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

Have you checked your virus.scanners.conf file like it says?

It's in the same directory as your MailScanner.conf file. Do you have a
virus.scanners.conf.rpmnew file? If so, rename it over your
virus.scanners.conf file, but make sure you copy into the new file any
changes you had to make.
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