Amavis keeps re-initialising

[Julian Pilfold-Bagwell]

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