#158 exit code on restart

[ViceIce]

ASSP is always exiting with code 1, so it's always counted as error from my systemd service.

Would it be possible to exit with code 0 on success, like exit for restart?

[ViceIce]

Probably related to this error:

[Worker_10000] BerkeleyDB-CRT-ENV-ERROR (1) in HASH Griplist , on file /usr/share/assp/griplist.bdb : BDB:Permission denied
2025-05-21 06:56:42 [Worker_10000] BerkeleyDB-ENV-ERROR Griplist:  - BDB:Permission denied

This file always seems to have wrong permissions after startup.

$ ll /usr/share/assp/griplist.bdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root assp 5517312 May 21 07:21 /usr/share/assp/griplist.bdb

[ViceIce]

ASSP version 2.8.2(25098) (Perl 5.034000) (on linux)

[ViceIce]

Probably related to useDB4griplist which i've enabled. Can i use DB: for griplist option instead, so it's using my mariadb server?

[Thomas Eckardt]

If assp is running under systemd control - start and stop assp using systemd!
If assp is under systemd control, exit code 1 is returned - because assp is unable to detect
from where INT/TERM/KILL/... was sent. It is assumed that systemd will not restart assp, if it has
requested a service stop - in every other case it is assumed, that systemd will know what to do!

You can't use DB: for griplist - RTM!

assp uses the default BerkeleyDB file permission, which is -rw-rw-rw- (0666) on linux/nix
the file permission is not explicit defined at DB creation time by assp and never set to 0644 at any time.
I'm unable to reproduce this issue!

Thomas

[ViceIce]

ok, I configured AsADaemon to yes - externally controlled and my service looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server daemon
After=network-online.target mariadb.service clamav-daemon.service
Wants=network-online.target
BindsTo=mariadb.service clamav-daemon.service

[Service]
Type=forking
WorkingDirectory=/usr/share/assp
ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl assp.pl
ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill $MAINPID
PIDFile=/usr/share/assp/pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=30s
TimeoutStartSec=2min
TimeoutStopSec=3min

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

is there something wrong with this? should i configure the user and group via the service file instead of assp options?

How can i tell assp to shutdown when not using the above kill method?