do you use spamd with sync?

[Olli Hauer]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:50:37 -0500 (CDT)
Von: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
An: freebsd-pf at freebsd.org
Betreff: do you use spamd with sync?

> (Maybe I should post this to the freebsdspamd berlios list instead??)
> 
> If you use spamd, can you please check your logs for errors like:
> 
> zgrep -E "bogus entry|can't delete|scan.*failed" /var/log/messages.*z 
> 
> (If that is where you log to.)
> 
> I have many errors and I can't track down why or what is corrupted.
> 
> One interesting result is that it will attempt to whitelist the same entry
> tens of thousands of times in less than one minute. And my CPU load will 
> go high. And my spamd memory usage goes up ten times. I have moved my 
> spamd databases out of the way around 20 times. But new corruption 
> continues. I have been running spamd for over a year now.
> 
> I am thing it might be related to my sync usage ...
> 
> Do any of you use the -Y and -y options?
> 
> I only use it with unicast. 
> 
> So my -Y is an hostname. So sync_addhost is successful (and my debugging 
> shows the "added spam sync host" line) so sync_iface stays NULL.
> 
> And sync_init() is ran with that as NULL. The code does:
> 
>         if (iface != NULL)
>                 sendmcast++;
> 
> So I am not multicast. Good.
> 
> But then the code resets it:
> 
>                         if (iface == NULL)
>                                 iface = baddr;
> 
> And then:
> 
>         /* Don't use multicast messages */
>         if (iface == NULL)
>                 return (syncfd);
> 
> (I added fprintf(stderr debugging to verify this.)
> 
> So it doesn't return even though I am not using multicast which it 
> attempts to setup.
> 
> So added a return (syncfd); anyways since it wouldn't work with out it.
> 
> I am guessing that I am the only person in the world using it with 
> unicast. I have asked about this a couple times on the OpenBSD tech list, 
> but no feedback on that there. 
> 
> Maybe the unicast method is broken? I'd appreciate to hear anyone's 
> experiences with using this.
> 
> I have been using it since sync it existed -- maybe around February.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed



Hi Jeremy,

read about your issues at tech at openbsd, no issues here with sync (even between OpenBDS/FreeBSD servers).

# my entries from rc.conf.local
#################################################
# spamd + spamlogd
obspamd_hostname="-h mx.mydomain.tld"
obspamd_banner="-n \"Postfix-spamd IP-based SPAM blocker\""
obspamd_trapp_ip="-M 192.168.1.23"
obspamd_sync_ip="-y 192.168.1.20"
obspamd_sync_peer="-Y 192.168.1.10 -Y 192.168.1.30"

obspamd_enable="YES"
obspamd_flags="-5 -v -l127.0.0.1 -S10 -s10 -G 15:6:864 ${obspamd_hostname} ${obspamd_banner} ${obspamd_trapp_ip} ${obspamd_sync_ip} ${obspamd_sync_peer}"

obspamlogd_enable="YES"
obspamlogd_flags="-i fxp0 ${obspamd_sync_peer}"


The patch for spamdb PR 5475 is also in the freebsd port.
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/freebsdspamd/trunk/spamdb/spamdb.c?rev=50&view=log


olli

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