On Monday 28 March 2005 15:01, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
Gene doesn't even need to do that. Just create another user, such as 'rootsa' and call spamc with the option '-u rootsa'. Or, if you'd like a more generic or global SA bayes database/etc, something like 'spamd' would be appropriate.
There's no need to open up SA to possible exploits of modules it depends on (or itself).
I tried a variation on that, makeing a user 'spamd' but then it still didn't have permissions to use or update the filter files. I didn't try making spamd a member of root though. I also tried making all the rules file owned by nobody:nobody but that didn't work either.
What I have done now is letting it work according to the log. And its gradually getting back in synch with the latest viagra peddlers.
You'd need to set the config option bayes_file_mode to something appropriate to make it work.
Daryl
