Issue Spamassasin not monitored

[Thomas Wilhelmi]

Hello,

I upgraded from 17.0 (last version) to 17.5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.

My SpamAssassin is running but not monitored and I get the following entries in the logfile:

Jun 23 23:03:19 h2504000 monit[3614]: 'psa_spamassassin' failed to start
Jun 23 23:03:19 h2504000 monit[3614]: 'psa_spamassassin' process is not running
Jun 23 23:03:19 h2504000 monit[3614]: 'psa_spamassassin' trying to restart
Jun 23 23:03:19 h2504000 monit[3614]: 'psa_spamassassin' start: /opt/psa/admin/bin/spammng

How can I solve this?

BR,
Willi

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Thomas Wilhelmi,

did you consider to stop/start "psa-spamassassin" over the command line?

/etc/init.d/psa-spamassassin stop

/etc/init.d/psa-spamassassin start

 

[Thomas Wilhelmi]

Hi Thomas Wilhelmi,

did you consider to stop/start "psa-spamassassin" over the command line?

/etc/init.d/psa-spamassassin stop

/etc/init.d/psa-spamassassin start

Yes, but I used the commands from the Watchdog-Entry:

/opt/psa/admin/bin/spammng --stop
/opt/psa/admin/bin/spammng --start

and I even rebootet the server

 

[Thomas Wilhelmi]

Hi,

if someone else has the same issue:

In the file /usr/local/psa/etc/modules/watchdog/monitrc.tpl the monitored Pid-File is mentioned. Here we see that the file /var/run/spamd.pid is monitored:

# SpamAssassin
check process psa_spamassassin
with pidfile "/var/run/spamd.pid"
start = "<psa_spamassassin_start>"
stop = "<psa_spamassassin_stop>"
if failed host localhost port 783 <spamassassin_protocol_check> with timeout <psa_spamassassin_connection_timeout> seconds then restart
if <psa_spamassassin_timeout_restarts> restarts within <psa_spamassassin_timeout_cycles> cycles then timeout
every <psa_spamassassin_cycles> cycles
mode <psa_spamassassin_mode>

but the Pid-File Spamassassin creates is /var/run/spamassassin.pid. Now we have 2 Options:

1. go to the path /var/run and run the following command: ln -s spamassassin.pid spamd.pid

or

2. Change the mentioned config-file Monitor.tpl so it has the following lines:

# SpamAssassin
check process psa_spamassassin
with pidfile "/var/run/spamassassin.pid"
start = "<psa_spamassassin_start>"
stop = "<psa_spamassassin_stop>"
if failed host localhost port 783 <spamassassin_protocol_check> with timeout <psa_spamassassin_connection_timeout> seconds then restart
if <psa_spamassassin_timeout_restarts> restarts within <psa_spamassassin_timeout_cycles> cycles then timeout
every <psa_spamassassin_cycles> cycles
mode <psa_spamassassin_mode>

Good luck