Re: Spamassassin fails to start

From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd_at_m5p.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 19:43:47 UTC 
On 10/1/22 15:12, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 	On a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-dfddfe29d8:
> Thu Jul 28 11:36:59 EDT 2022
> amd64
> 
> 	with all involved ports up to date, spamassassin fails to start
> and reports:
> 
> Starting spamd.
> child process [90570] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 3034.
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd: WARNING: failed to start spamd
> 
> 	Way above my pay grade.  Any idea what's going wrong?
> 
> 
> 			Respectfully,
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff
> 
> [...]

The first thing I'd recommend is looking in the log (/var/log/messages)
to see if it mentions anything.  If this was a fresh installation, have
you run sa-update yet?                                     -- George