amavisd-new can't start

[xwwu]

Dear Friends:

The message is:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/amavisd restart
amavisd not running?
Starting amavisd.
Missing process ID in file /var/amavis/amavisd.pid at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 13932.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/amavisd: WARNING: failed to start amavisd

What's wrong?

Thanks very much in advance.

 

[SirDice]

Make sure /var/amavis/ exists and that the user amavisd runs on has write access to it.

 

[xwwu]

Make sure /var/amavis/ exists and that the user amavisd runs on has write access to it.

Thanks for your reply. /var/amavis is:

 ls -al /var/amavis
total 12
drwxr-x---   6 vscan  vscan  512 Jul 27 10:44 ./
drwxr-xr-x  30 root   wheel  512 Jul 27 18:44 ../
drwx------   2 vscan  vscan  512 Jul 26 03:06 .spamassassin/
srwxrwx---   1 vscan  vscan    0 Jul 27 10:44 amavis-milter.sock=
-rw-r-----   1 vscan  vscan    0 Jul 16 11:53 amavisd.lock
-rw-r-----   1 vscan  vscan    0 Jul 26 23:23 amavisd.pid
srwxr-x---   1 vscan  vscan    0 Jul 26 23:23 amavisd.sock=
drwxr-x---   2 vscan  vscan  512 Jul 26 23:23 db/
drwxr-x---   2 vscan  vscan  512 Jul 26 23:23 tmp/
drwxr-x---   2 vscan  vscan  512 Oct 29  2008 var/

Nothing regarding user amavisd

 

[xwwu]

solved by rm -r /var/amavis and then reinstall amavisd-new. quite easy!

 

[manilaboy1vic]

I am also having troubles starting amavisd-new. Nothing in logs. My /var/amavis is owned by vscan. I deinstalled and reinstalled a couple of times..

 

[VladiBG]

I know that this is old thread but for the others that came here here's some info how to debug if amavisd fail to start.

Usually the problem is that you are missing some Perl module or you didin't upgrade your Perl after major upgrade of the FreeBSD. But to actually see what is happening start it manually and observe the output using:


/usr/local/sbin/amavisd -d 5