what broke my spamdb config?

[cbrace]

Hi all,

After upgrading to v11.0, mail/spamd wouldn't start, and returned the following error message:

spamdb: Can't find service "spamd-sync" in /etc/services

DDG returned precisely ONE hit for this: spamd-setup: cannot find service "spamd-cfg" in /etc/services

Which fortunately provided the answer. When I added the following three lines to /etc/services, spamd started as normal:

spamd           8025/tcp                # spamd(8)
spamd-sync      8025/udp                # spamd(8) synchronisation
spamd-cfg       8026/tcp                # spamd(8) configuration

Any thoughts about what happened here?

 

[ANOKNUSA]

There are no "spamd" entries in /etc/services in 10.3-RELEASE, either. Just to get this out of the way: you reinstalled all your ports/packages after upgrading the system, correct?

 

[kpa]

The spamd entries in services(5) are supposed to be added by the port or package installation, if they are not the port is broken and needs to be fixed.

Edit: The other possibility is that your upgrade didn't process the custom entries in services(5) as it should have. If you used freebsd-update(8) the problem is in that tool. If you used the source based upgrade you probably didn't use mergemaster(8) properly.

 

[cbrace]

First, I renamed the thread since clearly v11.0 didn't break anything.

Second, I rebuilt all my ports using ports-mgmt/synth. I just checked its logs, and it did upgrade spamd.

It is possible that when I ran freebsd-update I didn't pay attention closely when mergemaster was invoked to manage a couple of config files. Perhaps this is what happened?

I wonder though why the port didn't re-add the /etc/services entries when it was rebuilt...

 

[SirDice]

No port will ever edit files in /etc/, it's basically off-limits for third party software. I have spamd running on 10.3-RELEASE and those entries are not there.

 

[cbrace]

This is puzzling. On my freshly upgraded system, as I indicated at the top, spamd wouldn't start without those entries :/

 

[SirDice]

Well, mine only opens a file socket, I have no use for an open network port. So it may be something in your configuration.

 

[ANOKNUSA]

No port will ever edit files in /etc/, it's basically off-limits for third party software.

There's definitely an option for mail/opensmtpd to rewrite /etc/mail/mailer.conf automatically. It's turned off by default, though. In any case, there's no such option for mail/spamd.

 

[kpa]

For custom users and groups the ports(7) system has a mechanism and that one does modify /etc files directly:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/users-and-groups.html

I couldn't find anything related for services(5) so it looks like every port has their own hack to add the custom entries to /etc/services if needed.