Amavis keeps re-initialising

[Stephen Davies]

On 31/03/16 00:51, Julian Pilfold-Bagwell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have amavisd-new, clamav and spamassassin running alongside postfix
> and cyrus and I have a situation where restarting amavisd using
> systemctl doesn't exit you to the command prompt, it just waits for ages
> before failing and prints the following:
>
>
>
> Job for amavisd.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See
> "systemctl status amavisd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
>
>
>
>
> systemctl status amavisd.service provides:
>
>
>
> amavisd.service - Amavisd-new is an interface between MTA and content
> checkers.
>     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>     Active: activating (start) since Wed 2016-03-30 15:09:11 BST; 42s ago
>       Docs: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#doc
>    Process: 12357 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/amavisd -c
> /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>     CGroup: /system.slice/amavisd.service
>             ├─12358 /usr/sbin/amavisd (master)
>             ├─12382 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12383 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12384 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12385 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12386 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12387 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12388 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12389 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12390 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12391 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12392 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12393 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12394 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12395 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12396 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12397 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12398 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12399 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12400 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12401 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12402 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12403 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12404 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             ├─12405 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>             └─12406 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
>
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12404]: entered
> child_init_hook
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12403]:
> SpamControl: init_child on SpamAssassin done
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12405]:
> Net::Server: Child Preforked (12405)
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12405]: entered
> child_init_hook
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12358]:
> Net::Server: Parent ready for children.
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12404]:
> SpamControl: init_child on SpamAssassin done
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12406]:
> Net::Server: Child Preforked (12406)
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12406]: entered
> child_init_hook
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12405]:
> SpamControl: init_child on SpamAssassin done
> Mar 30 15:09:19 mail.bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk amavis[12406]:
> SpamControl: init_child on SpamAssassin done
>
>
> Any mail processed during the restart seems to get bounced but amavisd
> picks up where it left off and carries on working until the next restart
> which is about 1-2 minutes after.
>
> Any ideas would be helpful.  I've been going through logs but can't find
> anything that screams "problem's here".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jools
>

This sounds exactly like the behaviour I saw here until I stopped using 
systemctl to start amavisd.

I can't see why systemctl makes amavisd restart every minute or so but 
starting amavisd directly makes it behave normally.

Cheers,
Stephen

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