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. -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
