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Re: procmail processes rising; errors in log

2003-10-13 15:03:47
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:58:07PM -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:

We call Spam Assassin from procmail (after calling procmail from .forward).

Our .procmailrc contains

   :0 fw:sa_foo.lock
   * < 256000
   | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin

As mentioned previously, we're seeing steadily increasing procmail processes
for one user (of several who use Spam Assassin and procmail)

We're also seeing some errors in the procmail log file for this user:

procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
procmail: Terminating prematurely whilst waiting for lockfile "sa_rdm.lock"
procmail: Terminating prematurely whilst waiting for lockfile "sa_rdm.lock"
...

Wondering if the problems could be related.

Probably.  I can't understand why you're wanting the lock file at all.
Are you trying to limit access to the spamassassin executable by
too many processes at once, or something?

Anyway, suggest you move to spamc/spamd instead, which is much
easier on your system.

-- 
dman

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