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Hi all.

Ok here is my situation. I have a CEntos 5 box running Blue quartz with mailscanner as a plugin to manage spam. I inherited this box and now that I have done some investigation I noticed that two versions of spamA are running. I think what happened was that the previous admin installed mailscanner over the already installed version of SPamA. and I know mailscanner has SpamA already itergrated with it. So I noticed that the original SPamA is having all kinds of perl errors. Which are showing up on the maillog. I belive that because two instances of SPamA are running thats its slowing down email. So my question is how do I stop the original SPam from running without Affecting Mailscanner.

$ ps xafu | grep spamd
> root 2146 0.0 0.0 4556 552 pts/1 S+ 12:17
> 0:00 \_ grep spamd
> root 16388 0.0 1.8 44492 37708 ? Ss 10:30
> 0:04 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m8 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
> nobody 584 0.9 2.6 69180 55884 ? S 11:05
> 0:40 \_ spamd child
> nobody 588 0.6 1.9 47664 40512 ? S 12:14
> 0:01 \_ spamd child
> nobody 2117 2.4 1.8 45948 38952 ? S 12:17
> 0:00 \_ spamd child
> root 2118 0.0 1.7 44492 35640 ? S 12:17
> 0:00 \_ spamd child

$ /etc/init.d/spamassassin status
> spamd (pid 2118 588 584 16388) is running...



Thanks in advanced.

Please use code tags when posting ps listings etc.

I only see one instance. Spamd, like e.g. Apache, will create a number of instances of itself; if I read your ps listing correctly, all your "spamd child" processes are children of the same master / controller.