On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:51, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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] 

> Any ideas?

Try running su - nobody
before starting spamassassin.


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