http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4739
Summary: spamd logs "mkdir /dev/null: File exists" errors if its
user has no home dir
Product: Spamassassin
Version: 3.1.0
Platform: Macintosh
OS/Version: Mac OS X
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: spamc/spamd
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I invoke spamd as "/usr/local/bin/spamd -d -x -u nobody". It appears to work
properly, but for every
message it checks, "spamd: mkdir /dev/null: File exists at
///Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm
line 1467" appears among the other messages in /var/log/mail.log.
This may be happening because user "nobody" has no home directory (set to
"/dev/null"). But there is
no reason why spamd should be attempting to create any per-user configuration
files in its user's home
directory. I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I've set "bayes_auto_learn
0" in local.cf. Before I
disabled AWL and Bayes, several other lines were also logged which indicated
attempts to create things
in /dev/null (see attachment).
With the same configuration, spamd 3.0.4 had no problems and did not log these
errors.
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