Re: [cobalt-users] remove spamassassin spamd

[Richard Siddall <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Achieve IT wrote:
[snip]
> Earlier this week I removed MailScanner to see if this would help, but
> server crashed again this morning and I had to request a reboot. Today I
> tried to remove the Spamassassin Pkg, but received an message during
> uninstall stating that it could not remove spamd. When I run 'top' spamd is
> still running. How can I remove this?
[snip]

Declan,

I'm not familiar with the package, so I don't know what the startup 
script for spamd is.

SSH into the server, su to root and do:
	cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
	ls -al
Look for something like spamd or spamassassin.

Do (assuming it's spamassassin):
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin stop

That should turn off spamd until the next reboot.  To stop it starting 
during a reboot do something like:

	/sbin/chkconfig spamassassin off

Consider getting more RAM.  If that's not feasible, try cutting down the 
number of MailScanner child processes to save memory.

Regards,

	Richard.