[Mimedefang] slave error with razor2

[Graham Dunn]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:49:01PM -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> ** Reply to note from Kelson Vibber <kelson at speed.net> Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:33:25 -0800
> 
> 
> > >mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 12 stderr: razor2 check skipped: Bad file 
> > >descriptor Died at 
> > >/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 409. 
> >    
> > IIRC, this means queries to the Razor servers are not responding. 
> >    
> > Try running razor-admin -discover as your MIMEDefang user.  This should  
> > pick up a current list of Razor servers.
> 
> Hmm, I'm having the same problem.
> Tried razor-admin -discover, but nothing changed.
> (FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3)
> 
> Any other hint?
> Is there any howto on mimedefang+spamassassin+razor?

I'm running freeBSD-4.8. I had to give mailnull a valid shell, then

su mailnull -c "razor-admin -discover"

as root. I think this is a result of one of the razor sites being
overloaded, maybe?

Graham