spamassassin won't start

[lizard]

I'm running Plesk 7.5.4 and can't get spamassassin to start. This is what happens, it looks like it's starting ok, but it really isn't.

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spamd --start
Server has been successfully started.
# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spamd --status
is stopped
0

This is what I have installed:

#rpm -qa|grep spamassassin
spamassassin-3.0.3-1.rhfc2.art
psa-spamassassin-7.5.4-fc2.build75050824.12

any help would be appreciated, I'm not sure what to do, I've tried uninstalling spamassassin and reinstalling from within plesk and from yum, but always the same result.

Thanks.

 

[funkyade]

I have a feeling that PSA does not support spamassassin version 3 and above yet.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

I believe somebody posted a HOWTO for SA3 and Plesk 7.5.4 within the last 7-10 days. I'm too tired to do the search... I remember seeing it though...

I think this was the link:

http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?postid=118503#post118503

spamassassin sa3 howto 7.5.4 754 jamesyeeoc

 

[funkyade]

yeah just to confirm found the howto here -

http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?postid=118503#post118503

does work....

 

[lizard]

Still won't work even with v2.68

I uninstalled spamassassin 3 and psa-spamassassin and reinstalled it from the Plesk "updater". Still not working. Current packages are:

#rpm -qa|grep spam
spamassassin-2.63-8
psa-spamassassin-7.5.4-fc2.build75050824.12

I did have to manually re-enable spamassassin for each mailbox on the server. It's kind of strange, you can't do it for individual mailboxes, you have to do it as a group operation on all mailboxes, one domain at a time.

Anyway, spamd is running now and enabled, but not filtering!!!

# service spamassassin status
spamd (pid 2075) is running...

psa-spamassassin (how is this different from spamd??) isn't running:

# service psa-spamassassin status
spammng: Pidfile exists but process (pid 2571) is not running.
is stopped

When trying to start this process, it says "OK" like it started, but subsequent "status" queries show the same error about the Pidfile existing, but the process not running.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Your help is appreciated.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

I seem to remember another thread where someone downgraded back to 2.6x and had to replace the SA config files (or something) since the removal of 3.x did not undo those and therefore reinstalling 2.6x did not re-write them since they already existed. And due to changes in the 3.x files they are not compatible with 2.6x

I don' t have the time to do the searching, but it was recent, within the last 1-2 weeks, somewhere in the 7.5 forums.

 

[lizard]

Will try

Thanks, I never throught the search on the term 'downgrade'. I think I found the thread, I'll give that a try in the next couple days and see if I can make it work.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

I use the term 'downgrade' the post in question did not. Which thread did you find?

I think this is the link to the one I was thinking of:

http://forum.sw-soft.com/showthread.php?threadid=24697&highlight=spamassassin

(took some searching on my part to find it again, not being able to include words less than 3 characters long, nor non-alpha chars is a bummer)

Look for the post near the bottom by Traged1 on 13th September 2005 11:54 AM

 

[lizard]

Thanks

Well, I tried several possible solutions from various posts and nothing seemed to work. As it turns out, my root partition was out of drive space!!! Deleting one big file and rebooting made everything work again. I'm surprised there were no other signs from other applications.

Thanks so much, jamesyeeoc for your time and efforts on this forum.