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and subject line Bug#413753: spampd: auto-whitelist broken due to wrong file
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Package: spampd
Version: 2.30-16
Severity: important
Heya,
during the start of the spampd daemon the awl.mutex is created with
root:root permissions, which results in this error message:
spampd[32464]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed:
locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile /var/cache/spampd/awl.mutex:
Permission denied
Looks liek the spampd-childs try to access the lockfile which is held by
the parent process.
one:/var/cache/spampd# ll
total 9640
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl
-rw------- 1 root root 6 2007-03-03 09:27 awl.mutex
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks
one:/var/cache/spampd# rm awl.mutex
one:/var/cache/spampd# ll
total 9636
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks
one:/var/cache/spampd# /etc/init.d/spampd restart
Stopping spam checking proxy daemon: spampd .
Starting spam checking proxy daemon: spampd.
one:/var/cache/spampd# ll
total 9640
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl
-rw------- 1 root root 6 2007-03-07 00:24 awl.mutex
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks
one:/var/cache/spampd#
I also have the same problem which was reported in #395355, everything
else seems to work well.
Thanks and best regards,
Bernd
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-grsec
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages spampd depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libnet-server-perl 0.94-1 An extensible, general perl server
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii spamassassin 3.1.7-2 Perl-based spam filter using text
spampd recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Bernd Zeimetz schrieb:
> during the start of the spampd daemon the awl.mutex is created with
> root:root permissions, which results in this error message:
>
> spampd[32464]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed:
> locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile /var/cache/spampd/awl.mutex:
> Permission denied
>
> Looks liek the spampd-childs try to access the lockfile which is held by
> the parent process.
There isn't anything I see I could do about this. But you can:
Add "auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666" to your SpamAssassin configuration
(see "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL" for details).
This solution isn't very safe, but I recommend using MySQL or PostgreSQL
for storing AWL and Bayes data anyway (see
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin/sql for details).
I'm adding an appropriate hint to README.Debian in future releases.
Regards,
Sven
PS: Closing the bug as there isn't anything I could do in spampd
automatically but the problem doesn't surface with the proper configuration.
PPS: 395255 (multi recipient LMTP) is pending upload.
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