connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed

[jlixfeld]

I'm noticing that SpamAssassin isn't doing what it's supposed to.

I've tried to test it's functionality by sending a GTUBE to exim, when I do, spamc reports that it can't connect to spamd:

Jul 28 14:31:37 app1 spamc[69994]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Can't assign requested address
Jul 28 14:31:38 app1 spamc[69994]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Can't assign requested address
Jul 28 14:31:39 app1 spamc[69994]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Can't assign requested address
Jul 28 14:31:40 app1 spamc[69994]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

spamd is certainly running:

app1# ps xa|grep spam
69978 ?? Ss 0:01.17 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 15 (perl)
69983 ?? I 0:00.03 spamd child (perl)
69984 ?? I 0:00.02 spamd child (perl)
70076 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep spam
app1# sockstat | grep perl
root perl 69984 4 dgram -> /var/run/log
root perl 69984 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:783 *:*
root perl 69984 7 stream -> ??
root perl 69984 9 stream -> ??
root perl 69983 4 dgram -> /var/run/log
root perl 69983 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:783 *:*
root perl 69983 8 stream -> ??
root perl 69978 4 dgram -> /var/run/log
root perl 69978 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:783 *:*
root perl 69978 7 stream -> ??
root perl 69978 8 stream -> ??

I've followed the instructions as per the how-to (http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=36), have restarted exim and spamd to no avail.

Any ideas?

 

[nobaloney]

Two posts now on this issue. What OS are you running?

Jeff

 

[jlixfeld]

Two posts now on this issue. What OS are you running?

Jeff

Apologies on both counts:

- I saw a post from 2003, but the workarounds for that issue didn't resolve my problem.

- My OS is FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0

 

[floyd]

- I saw a post from 2003, but the workarounds for that issue didn't resolve my problem.

He is talking about another post today, not one from 2003.

 

[jlixfeld]

Solved

Wow, this was an odd one.

The actual error, as reported earlier was "Can't assign requested address".

I got the same error when I tried to ping localhost from the CLI, or even check webmail via squirrelmail:

[ario@app1 ~]$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

The solution was to bounce the loopback interface:

ifconfig lo0 down
ifconfig lo0 up

And everything started working like a champ...

Weird...