Spamd Errors - Pulling My Hair Out

Vibe

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Hello everyone,

I have installed/configured Spamassassin 3.10/Squirrelmail 1.45/ClamAV .87.1 on a FreeBSD 4.11 box (actually went very well). Spamassassin is catching test messages, and they are placed into the appropriate users "spam" box in squirrelmail. However, after running/logging in debug mode I have two errors that for the life of me, I cannot find a solution for.

The first problem in regards to the following log messages that appear soon after starting spamd:

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Jan 9 22:13:54 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: sysread(8) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:13:54 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: sysread(7) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:16:25 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:16:25 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:16:25 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: sysread(8) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:16:25 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: sysread(7) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:18:57 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:18:57 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:18:57 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: sysread(8) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:18:57 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: sysread(7) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:21:28 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:21:28 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: periodic ping from spamd parent
Jan 9 22:21:28 server1 spamd[47844]: prefork: sysread(8) not ready, wait max 300 secs
Jan 9 22:21:28 server1 spamd[47843]: prefork: sysread(7) not ready, wait max 300 secs
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I have searched "high-and-low" and have only found references to the above through archives of the spamassassin dev group. Nothing of "substance" however. Spamd doesn't die, but the 2 child processes come to a hault. Has anyone viewed their spamassassin output in debug mode to see if they encounter the same? Any ideas?

The second is something that I have seen in the forums here, but have not been able to find a solution for. Several people here have referenced the error in numerous posts, however the config options they have presented (for both directadmin templates & the site-wide spamassassin conf files (/var/mail/spamassin/local.cf) do not solve the problem.

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Jan 6 16:30:58 server1 spamd[439]: config: failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1
Jan 6 16:30:58 server1 spamd[439]: config: failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag *****SPAM*****
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I consider this a "cosmetic" bug, in that the message subjects are being rewritten for spam that is received - spamd is just logging incorrect info. Any ideas with this one? The following is a sample of my user_prefs in
/usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/custom

*******
report_safe |report_safe|

|blacklist_from|
|whitelist_from|

required_score |required_hits|
rewrite_header subject |subject_tag|

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Any assistance/suggestions/or redirection to possible solutions is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks again!

Michael
 
Just thought of something...could this be an error due to firewall restrictions? I have a pretty thorough ruleset through IPF (FreeBSD). Thanks again!
 
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