spamd process?

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Hi

we are testing Centos 6 with virtualmin currently no servers configured. It has been on now for 24hours and this morning have seen the message below? Spamd is an antispam but should it be restarting and why port 783?

Oct 10 05:02:07 xxxxx spamd[10645]: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down
Oct 10 05:02:14 xxxxx spamd[30415]: logger: removing stderr method
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.3.1)
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: spamd: server pid: 30417
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 30418
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 30420
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: prefork: child states: IS
Oct 10 05:02:16 xxxxx spamd[30417]: prefork: child states: II

Thanks Colin

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Howdy,

Chances are SpamAssassin has a cron job that causes it to restart… possibly one related to updating the rulesets.

And port 783 is the SpamAssassin port – it generally just listens on localhost by default, but could be tweaked to listen for outside connections. That would allow SpamAssassin to reside on a remote host if you wanted… and you could configure your system to query that remote host on port 783 to perform your spam checks.

-Eric