Spam assasin doesn't work

damn

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I had serverwizards.com secure my server when I got it. Basically, they didn't do any of the things they agreed to do, and to this date the box still doesn't work properly.

They could never get spamd & clamd to work with exim.

Clamd is working.

Today I noticed this:

Code:
last pid: 24450;  load averages:  3.97,  3.69,  3.05    up 0+19:02:42  16:11:22
64 processes:  6 running, 58 sleeping
CPU states: 88.1% user,  0.0% nice, 11.4% system,  0.5% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 215M Active, 187M Inact, 72M Wired, 16M Cache, 60M Buf, 980K Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 365M Used, 1683M Free, 17% Inuse

  PID USERNAME   PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
23679 root       132    0   218M 61768K RUN     10:30 31.25% 31.25% perl
23696 root       132    0   209M 65760K RUN      9:58 31.15% 31.15% perl
24352 root       132    0 57116K 48784K RUN      1:42 30.52% 30.52% perl
  658 root        76    0  4120K  1940K RUN     24:03  1.17%  1.17% named
  659 clamav      96    0 13252K  7624K select   1:02  0.00%  0.00% clamd
  656 mysql       96    0 38156K  2420K select   0:19  0.00%  0.00% mysqld
  686 mail         8    0 34528K  1336K nanslp   0:13  0.00%  0.00% perl
  743 mail         8    0 34360K  1336K nanslp   0:12  0.00%  0.00% perl
  952 mail         8    0 33996K  1332K nanslp   0:11  0.00%  0.00% perl
  742 mail         8    0 33312K  1336K nanslp   0:09  0.00%  0.00% perl
  846 mail         8    0 33084K  1332K nanslp   0:09  0.00%  0.00% perl
  589 root        96    0 21740K     0K select   0:07  0.00%  0.00% <perl>
 5306 apache      20    0 31708K     0K lockf    0:06  0.00%  0.00% <httpd>
 5307 apache      20    0 31732K     0K lockf    0:05  0.00%  0.00% <httpd>
 5175 apache      20    0 31576K     0K lockf    0:05  0.00%  0.00% <httpd>
 4986 apache      96    0 31512K     0K select   0:05  0.00%  0.00% <httpd>

I kill the hogging tasks off, but before not too long they are back.

A ps -aux shows that the taks are running spamc - something that doesn't work on my box.

I get this in the exim panic log:

Code:
2005-01-31 10:33:22 1CvOXq-000EMd-3P == [email][email protected][/email] R=spamcheck_director T=spamcheck defer (-24): Filter process failure

So I removed the lines in exim that referred to spam assasin, and now the box seems to be behaving.

What is the difference between spamc & spamd?

Can anybody recommend a server management company that can actaully do the work they claim they can do, and that reply to emails / tickets?

I thank you in advance.
 
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