On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:27 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Ow Mun Heng schreef: > > I've got a bunch of ham and spam in my mailbox (mbox format) and I > > just want to use it to train it. How do I go about doing that? I've > > tried dspam_sa_trainer but it keeps complaining of errors. (Can't > > write to the /var/amavis/.dspam/ directory, even though I run it as > > root!!) > > > Stupid question(s) (forgive me, but the "obvious" has to be eliminated):
No.. My mistake for not putting it clearer. > > 1) does the directory /var/amavis/.dspam exist? With write permissions > for the owner and/or root? I've gotta say, a hidden directory in /var/ seems > *awful* weird (and pointless). #ls -ld /var/amavis/ drwxr-x--- 7 amavis amavis 4096 Sep 26 15:05 /var/amavis #ls -ld /var/amavis/.dspam drwxr-x--- 2 amavis root 4096 Sep 26 15:05 .dspam > > 2) (because the idea of a dotdir in /var seems so weird...) Does dspam > have a config file where this target is set? Have you tried changing > this target to someplace you can write to (as root)? Nope. Ah.. Now I see the problem.. hehe.. root does not have write permission!! What a "Homer". You've been a great help. I was just having one of those days. (and they say root has all power! Well, obviously not enough over the user named stupid haha!!) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:03:56 up 2 days, 13:50, 9 users, load average: 1.13, 0.44, 0.82 -- [email protected] mailing list
