spamd always failing

[Zion Ahead]

Spamd is always failing and I tried various methods mentioned in the forums including uninstall / reinstall via whm.



Also:

/scripts/perlinstaller Digest::SHA1
/scripts/perlinstaller --force Mail::SpamAssassin
/etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart
/scripts/restartsrv spamd


Now, I got this error during the above process:

root@server [~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart
Shutting down clamd:                                       [  OK  ]
Shutting down exim:                                        [  OK  ]
Shutting down antirelayd:                                  [  OK  ]
Shutting down spamd:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting clamd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting exim:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting exim-smtps:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting antirelayd:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting spamd: [25517] error: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use
spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use
                                                           [FAILED]

I've done forced cpanel upgrade as well. Any suggestions?

[fuzzie]

I have the same problem.
Tried /scripts/restartsrv_clamd

got:

clamd: no process killed
clamd: no process killed
ERROR: Parse error at line 76: Option FixStaleSocket requires boolean argument.
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf

[omenix]

Try to update your clamav to latest version from cpanel update version 0.90 if I'm not mistaken and use socket instead of listening to tcp port.. and also increase your maxchild per connection if your server has big activity on email connection.. you can search on this forum how to do it..

keyword: spamd socket

[hbouma]

I have the same problem.
Tried /scripts/restartsrv_clamd

got:

clamd: no process killed
clamd: no process killed
ERROR: Parse error at line 76: Option FixStaleSocket requires boolean argument.
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf

I don't know if this is a different problem than the one listed at the start of the ticket, but its because cPanel updated the clamav connector with the new version of clamav 0.90. However, they didn't have their addon update the config file to work with the new version. As a result, clamd won't start for anyone who has been updated to clamav 0.90.

So you need to either fix /etc/clamd.conf or wait for cPanel to hopefully come out with a fix for the problem. Until its resolved, exim won't accept emails for delivery.

Hal

[fuzzie]

"So you need to either fix /etc/clamd.conf or wait for cPanel to hopefully come out with a fix for the problem. Until its resolved, exim won't accept emails for delivery."

What do I need to do to clamd.conf to make it work?

Found this too:
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....ighlight=clamd
Tried that fix, but still failing.

FIXED; forced update and /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr2 --updateaddons fixed it.
thanks!

[viooltje]

thanks allot man it worked for me and I hope this will stay so!

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=63843&page=3

/scripts/perlinstaller Digest::SHA1
/scripts/perlinstaller --force Mail::SpamAssassin
/etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart
/scripts/restartsrv spamd


root@system [~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart
Shutting down exim: [ OK ]
Shutting down antirelayd: [ OK ]
Shutting down spamd: [FAILED]
Starting exim: [ OK ]
Starting exim-smtps: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]
Starting spamd: [ OK ]
root@system [~]# /scripts/restartsrv spamd
Waiting for spamd to restart..............finished.

root 13717 7.2 1.1 29804 24192 ? Ss 05:20 0:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d --allowed-ips=127.0.0.1 --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid --max-children=5
root 13718 0.0 1.0 29804 22676 ? S 05:20 0:00 spamd child
root 13719 0.0 1.0 29804 22556 ? S 05:20 0:00 spamd child

spamd started ok
root@system [~]#


root@system [~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart
Shutting down exim: [ OK ]
Shutting down antirelayd: [ OK ]
Shutting down spamd: [ OK ]
Starting exim: [ OK ]
Starting exim-smtps: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]
Starting spamd: [ OK ]
root@system [~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim restart

Shutting down exim: [ OK ]
Shutting down antirelayd: [ OK ]
Shutting down spamd: [ OK ]
Starting exim: [ OK ]
Starting exim-smtps: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]
Starting spamd: [ OK ]
root@system [~]#