On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Christopher Tarricone wrote:

> The permissions on my bayes_journal and bayes_toks files keep changing. Has
> anyone else encoutered this problem?
[snip..]
> I look in /usr/share/spamassassin/db/ and behold! The permissions are:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] db]# ll
> total 23012
> -rw-------    1 root     root         3057 Jan 14 16:49 bayes_journal
> -rw-------    1 vpopmail vchkpw   21061632 Jan 14 16:50 bayes_seen
> -rw-------    1 vpopmail vchkpw   10211328 Jan 14 16:50 bayes_toks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] db]#
>
> If I do a processes listing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] db]# ps -aux |grep spam
> vpopmail  3215  0.1  5.3 31940 27244 ?       S    Jan13   1:49
> /usr/bin/spamd -m 20 -s -Q -q -x -d -v -u vpopmail -F 0
> root      1445  0.0  0.1  3760  568 pts/3    S    16:53   0:00 grep spam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] db]#
>
> It seems to me that SpamAssassing is running as the user vpopmail so I am
> not sure how the permissions are getting changed so often.

Are you doing any 'sa-learn' runs as root? (either by hand or
via some kind of automated batch/cron job)?
If the bayes_journal file rolls over during a 'sa-learn' run
it will create a new one, as root.


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