Re: [vps-mail] Why didn't spamd restart?

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:22:39AM -0800, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> Aaugh! Deluged with spam this morning.
> 
> A quick check of the server shows that the server went down
> about 11 hours ago.  Ps -ax shows spamd is not running.
> 
> I had this line in my rc file:
> 
>   /usr/local/bin/spamd -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid --socketpath=/var/run/spamd.sock

Ooops. I think I told you that this was ok in an earlier thread. Sorry
Abigail (and everyone else who trusted me to look more carefully!)

Cron on VPS 1 and shell are the only things that do not run "virtual"
(chrooted), so if you want to run a program (e.g., spamd, mysql, etc.)
out of your own VPS (i.e., the program is installed under your home
account /usr/home/<acct>/usr/local/bin/<something>), you'll need
"virtual" in there.

To confuse things further, some of the vinstalls "wrap" the binary
with an explicit virtual call in a Bourne-shell script (e.g., urchin
and most mysql utilities are like this) so it appears that they don't
need to be run virtually, when they really are.

Scott
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