On 27 September 2005 03:03, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 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

The problem is here. root cannot access that directory.

Uwe

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