Spamassassin upgrade caused error of "exited or timed out without..."

Spamassassin upgrade caused error of "exited or timed out without..."

Hold on Cowboy

This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. It's likely dead, dying, or wildly inaccurate.

I just upgraded Spamassassin, and low, after I restarted it I received an error message while trying to start Spamassassin.

[root]# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
Starting spamd: child process [21162] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/bin/spamd line 2588.
                                                           [FAILED]

Per the article below, a simple

sa-update

at the command line updated the Spamassassin rules. Then it would start like normal.

Resources: http://www.elehost.com/faq/web-tool-tips-and-fixes/54-spamassassin/172-fix-for-sa-spamd-error-qchild-process-exited-or-timed-out-without-signaling-production-of-a-pid-fileq