[Mimedefang] "Couldn't start signal thread" error

[Lucas Albers]

Fernando Gleiser said:
> I'm having problems with mimedefang on a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. It ran fine
> for months, but sudently it stopped working. When I try to brint it up
> I get the following error in maillog:

> Feb 19 16:16:10 cactus mimedefang[1178]: MIMEDefang-2.39: Couldn't start
> signal
> thread
> Feb 19 16:16:13 cactus mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 1 (pid 1182)
> (2 ru
> nning): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
> Feb 19 16:16:45 cactus sm-mta[1185]: i1JJGjJY001185: Milter (mimedefang):
> to err
> or state
> Feb 19 16:16:45 cactus sm-mta[1185]: i1JJGjJY001185: Milter:
> initialization fail
> ed, temp failing commands

Try this:
stop sendmail and mimedefang.
sleep 60
start mimedefang, sleep 10,
start sendmail.

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