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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/10/2014 06:24 AM, Felix Kaegi
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<pre wrap="">Hi
During the boot process we get the following error message. Any idea what causes this?
<b>Starting spamd: Mar 10 10:05:49.254 [2824] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: already running on /var/run/spamd.sock, exiting</b>
Mar 10 10:05:50.256 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in -e at /usr/bin/spamd line 793
Mar 10 10:05:50.257 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 267
Mar 10 10:05:50.258 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/spamd line 811
Mar 10 10:05:50.259 [2824] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 2: spamd: directory for does not exist, exiting
..... [message repeats itself a number of times]
Mar 10 10:05:58.286 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in -e at /usr/bin/spamd line 793
Mar 10 10:05:58.287 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 267
Mar 10 10:05:58.288 [2824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $path in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/spamd line 811
Mar 10 10:05:58.289 [2824] error: spamd: directory for does not exist, exiting
spamd: directory for does not exist, exiting
[FAILED]</pre>
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service sendmail stop<br>
check to see if there is a spamd process runing.<br>
ps aux | grep spamd<br>
if so <br>
kill `pidof spamd`<br>
then<br>
service sendmail start<br>
<br>
might work<br>
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