Defunct spamd processes

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Mon Feb 9 04:30:35 UTC 2004


Hi All,

I have a mail server which for all users in my home uses fetchmail to get my 
mail from my isp.  I have configured spamassasin according to the following 
url:

http://evillair.netdojo.com/howto/spamassassin.html

I have found that since doing so defunct processes regarding spamd as noted:

[root at hammer root]# ps -ef | grep spam
root      2403     1  0 Feb03 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a
501       5858  2403  0 21:40 ?        00:00:00 [spamd <defunct>]
501       5859  2403  0 21:40 ?        00:00:01 [spamd <defunct>]
root      5902  4250  0 21:52 pts/2    00:00:00 grep spam
[root at hammer root]#

The only change I have made to the /etc/procmailrc file is from:

/usr/bin/spamassassin -P

to:

/usr/bin/spamc

BTW, I noticed the defunct processes occur either way spamassasin is called.

As I am new to this as having never configured SA before,  I have a couple of 
questions:

1.  Is the /etc/procmailrc file correct?

2.  Should there be anything else in my sendmail.mc file pointing to an SA 
milter?  I ask because I had to put in a milter for clamav and was 
wondering..

Any and all help is appreciated and thanked for in advance.

Phil





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