Bugzilla Bug 134258

Jaymale etc # /etc/init.d/spamass-milter start
 * Starting Sendmail milter plugin for SpamAssassin ...
 * Failed to start /usr/sbin/spamass-milter                                    
                                                        [ !! ]
Jaymale etc # ps aux|grep spam
root      2667  0.2  9.8  56016 53992 ?        Ss   15:04   0:14
/usr/sbin/spamd -d -r /var/run/spamd.pid -m 5 -c -H
root      2691  0.0  9.5  56016 52456 ?        S    15:04   0:00 spamd child
root      2692  0.0  9.5  56016 52348 ?        S    15:04   0:00 spamd child
root     28409  0.0  0.1  11220   732 ?        Ssl  16:42   0:00
/usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass-milter.sock -f
root     28454  0.0  0.0   1532   484 pts/1    S+   16:42   0:00 grep spam


May 24 16:42:10 Jaymale spamass-milter[28409]: spamass-milter 0.3.1 starting



Jaymale etc # emerge --info
Portage 2.1_rc2-r2 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.4.5-vanilla,
glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-rc4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-rc4 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 ares async authdaemond avi
bashlogger bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib calendar caps cgi clamav
clamd cli crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba dcc discard-path dri ecc eds emboss
erandom exif extensions fam flash flexresp flood foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect
fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened hardenedphp
hash idea idn imap inline iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libclamav libg++ libwww
mad mailwrapper mbox md5sum memlimit milter mime mimencode mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork
ncurses nls oav ogg opengl openssh pam pcap pcapnav pcntl pcre pdflib pear perl
pg-vacuumdelay png posix postgres pppd prelude python pyzor quicktime razor
readline reflection rrdcgi sasl sendfile session sguil shaper sharedext
sharedmem simplexml smp smpgsql snmp snortsam soap sockets softquota spell spf
spl sql sse ssl subject-rewrite swat symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc tidy tiff
tokenizer tools tos truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts urandom usb vhosts
vorbis xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmms xorg xpm xsl xslt xv yazz zip zlib
elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

0.3.1-r1 in with revamped initscript, support for options and dropped privs by
default.
The PID logic is improved so it should fix your problems.