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RE: spamc/spamd on Solaris x86
Anyone using spamc/spamd called from procmail on Solaris 8 or 9 x86 platform?

I am testing SA for this platform. SA version is 2.63. Perl is 5.8.2.
Procmail is 3.22. Sendmail is the Sun version with patches.

I have tried 2 different Solaris x86 boxes, one with Solaris 8 and one with
Solaris 9, and the results are the same. A large portion of email does not
get the SA headers. syslog shows that SA is processing the message. There
should be another message that indicates whether the email is 'clean' or
'identified spam'. When the SA headers are not written, I do not get the SA
final status message in syslog. I see no pattern in syslog when the headers
are missed. The load is very light and there are no resource limits reached.

When the SA headers are written, syslog shows what is expected and the results
of the SA tests are exactly as expected.

No problems at all on Solaris 8 or 9 SPARC platform.

Alex Moore
Re: spamc/spamd on Solaris x86 [ In reply to ]
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:43:32 -0600
Alex S Moore <asmoore@edge.net> wrote:

> I have tried 2 different Solaris x86 boxes, one with Solaris 8 and one with
> Solaris 9, and the results are the same. A large portion of email does not
> get the SA headers. syslog shows that SA is processing the message. There
> should be another message that indicates whether the email is 'clean' or
> 'identified spam'. When the SA headers are not written, I do not get the SA
> final status message in syslog. I see no pattern in syslog when the headers
> are missed. The load is very light and there are no resource limits
> reached.

Answered my own question. Sorry, but some others may not realize this.

Running SA on more than one host can cause file contention. My problem was
with the locking of the auto-whitelist file.

Problem sorted.

Alex