Spamd error - 127.0.0.1:783 already in use

[clubhost]

I did the upgrade to the latest Spam Assassin using Howto Instructions from here
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14272#post79626

and after doing

/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

I get this error;

[1635] error: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

What is the magical command that will get me out of this hole!

 

[clubhost]

Follow-up

Well. It's been some time now and no idea's or help from anyone.

I have since found that spamd was appearing as perl, so I had to Kill perl before I could properly start Spamd.

But I still have problems with Spamd stalling at boot-up and now with our data centre suffering from UPS failures my server goes off-line and I can't get it back up until I explain to them that they need to kill spamd to allow it to startup properly.

 

[clubhost]

I still have this problem....

Any ideas???

 

[floyd]

Well perl itself doesn't run. You may have a perl script that runs at boot time. You need to examine what starts at boot time.

and I can't get it back up until I explain to them that they need to kill spamd to allow it to startup properly.

That should not prevent your server from starting and at least allowing you to connect via ssh. Make sure sshd starts right after iptables and the network. This should allow you to at least ssh in.