Re: Problem with spamassassin/sendmail

<posted & mailed> Craig White wrote: >> spamassassin seems to have stopped performing on my desktop. >> I am getting the following 2-line message in /var/log/maillog : >> =============================================================== >> Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341: >> Milter (spamassassin): >> local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe >> Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341: >> Milter (spamassassin): >> to error state >> =============================================================== ... >> I'm running Fedora-4, with spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4 >> and spamass-milter-0.3.0-8.fc4 , >> >> Any and all suggestions gratefully received. > ---- > service spamass-milter restart Thanks for the response, and for the suggestion. I had tried this before, but I tried it again. (I also restarted spamassassin and sendmail.) However, I am still getting the message above repeatedly in /var/log/maillog . It is repeated every 10 minutes, which is the period at which I collect email, admittedly by the rather odd method of uucp (uucico), but I don't think that should be a problem. The message comes from sendmail, and seems to suggest that sendmail does not like to open a socket with local name /var/run/spamass.sock . What does it mean to say that this is "unsafe"? I notice that spamass-milter seems to have no problem with /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock . If anyone can throw enlightenment on this, I shall be very grateful.