[Sysadmin] Heeeeelp - think i broke qmail-smtpd on tempest

[Dean Mah]

John Handelaar wrote:
> David Kaufman wrote:
> 
>> i thought i knew how to restart qmail-smtpd until i tried it on 
>> tempest tonight, and it seems like i broked it but good.
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin
>> HELP!
> 
> 
> So I looked in /etc/default/spamassassin and it did indeed contain a
> line marked 'ENABLE=0'.
> 
> Have changed it to 1, ran "/etc/init.d/spamassassin start" without
> errors, and pushed "qmailctl stop/start" a couple of times.  Error
> gone.

I believe that the qmailrocks installation pipes messages through 
sa+clamav without using the spamd daemon, i.e., it uses 
qmail-scanner-queue.pl as the qmail queuing method.  That would explain 
why spamd was disabled at startup.  I'm not sure why it was suddenly 
required.

Dean