On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:14:10PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:37:51AM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > tags 340753 + patch > > thanks > > > > Hi, > > > > I've run into this same problem, and it's very annoying. So I made a > > quick fix to cause spamd not to abort just because DNS is not available; > > it just sets a flag to pretend that DNS was never asked for in the first > > place, and continues normal operation. The patch is attached. Hopefully, > > this will help in the interim. > > > > (Warning: I have no idea what side-effects this patch may have. It *is* > > a quick-n-dirty fix after all. It hasn't caused me any problems, but you > > should keep an eye on spamd after applying this patch to make sure it > > isn't doing something wrong.) > > Hmm... my understanding of the bug is that if spamd is started up > without network, it complains (loudly) but continues to work without > network tests. Is this not the case? [...]
It causes spamd to abort (the "die" statements in the code). I don't know if it will also crash under some circumstances; whatever it does, what I observe is that spamd comes up for less than 1 second and then dies, and then spamc just passes through all the spam I get 'cos it can't connect to spamd. Rather nasty, 'cos by the time you explicitly look in the log files or check with 'ps', a lot of spam could've hit your mailserver. Anyway, it's good to hear that it's been fixed upstream. --T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
