I was able to start spamd using: '/usr/bin/spamd -d -x'
rather than: '/usr/bin/spamd -d -x -u nobody'
More info:
finger nobody Login: nobody Name: Unprivileged User Directory: /dev/null Shell: /dev/null Never logged in. No Plan.
id nobody uid=4294967294(nobody) gid=4294967294(nobody) groups=4294967294(nobody)
perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5) configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=6.8, archname=darwin
uname='darwin ccsd89.org 6.8 darwin kernel version 6.8: wed sep 10 15:20:55 pdt 2003; root:xnuxnu-344.49.obj~2release_ppc power macintosh powerpc '
config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe',
optimize='-Os',
cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.1 20020420 (prerelease)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
libs=-lm -lc
perllibs=-lm -lc
libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Dec 3 2004 15:14:55 @INC: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.5/darwin /System/Library/Perl/5.8.5 /Library/Perl/5.8.5/darwin /Library/Perl/5.8.5 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.5/darwin /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.5 /Network/Library/Perl
SA 3.01 on OS X 10.2.5:
/usr/bin/spamd -d -x -u nobody -D trying to connect to syslog/unix... no error connecting to syslog/unix logging enabled: facility: mail socket: unix output: syslog creating INET socket: Listen: 128 LocalAddr: 127.0.0.1 LocalPort: 783 Proto: 6 ReuseAddr: 1 Type: 1 setrgid() not implemented at /usr/bin/spamd line 702.
Any ideas?