When I fire up SA in the default mode it fires up as root and when ir gets passed an email by spamc it switches to user nobody.
Thus I decided to start it as user nobody anyway and gave that use a home directory in /tmp and a subdir /tmp/.spamassassin with owner and group of nobody. Even after all this I still find that spamd is trying to access the /root directory. Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9852]: connection from ext.lannet.com.au [127.0.0.1] at port 1782 Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9963]: Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9963]: Cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9963]: Couldn't create readable default_prefs for [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9963]: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:99. Nov 26 15:41:43 ext spamd[9963]: clean message (0.3/5.0) for root:99 in 0.0 seconds, 3439 bytes. Any ideas? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
