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Don Levey wrote:
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| The latest in my quest to get SA to work properly...
|
| I've made sure that the whitelist and Bayes DB can be written to and
be read
| by 'spamassassin'.  I've set the '-u spamassassin' flag for both the
| /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter startup
files.
| I've restarted spamd, spamass-milter, and sendmail.
|
| My ps list shows that 'spamassassin' is running spamd, and 'root' is
running
| spamass-milter.  In my maillog file, I am getting errors:
| * for 'named' accounts, spamd can't find the user_prefs file
| * for 'aliased' accounts, spamd can't find the username.
|
| I know that I can solve the latter by putting the '-x' flag on the
| spamass-milter startup line.  Do I need to worry about the former?
That is,
| am I causing any problems by running this way, or am I simply now set
up so
| that I can run user-specific rules in addition to the site-wide ones?

No need to worry, SA is looking for per-user user_prefs files, and can't
find them. Which is not a problem. It's a function of the -u option to
spamass-milter. If you don't want individual user_prefs you might turn
it off.
And as you said, -x might be useful as well....

Craig.
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