Spamd keeps falling over

[Derrick MacPherson]

I have had spamd die about 3 times in the last couple days, this is what 
I saw in the logs this morning:

Mar 11 06:00:37 mail spamd[28178]: prefork: ordered child to accept, but 
child reported state '1' at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Spam
dForkScaling.pm line 390


What does it mean?

Can I get some suggestions on an application that will monitor this 
process and if it dies restart it?