On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Matt Kettler wrote: >Brian Kendig wrote: >> On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: >>> On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: >>>> I'm running spamd as "spamd -d -x -u nobody", I've commented out >>>> AWL from v310.pre, and I set "bayes_auto_learn 0" so that it >>>> shouldn't try to create a Bayes database. I have no idea why it >>>> keeps complaining about not being able to create a file in >>>> /dev/null. >>> >>> What is user nobody's home dir set to? >> >> User "nobody"'s home directory is "/dev/null". Why is spamd 3.1.0 >> is trying to create anything there, and how do I prevent it from >> trying to do so? > >SpamAssassin tools in general default to creating bayes and AWL > directories relative to the current user's homedir. > >spamd also defaults to creating a default user_prefs there. > >The best way to prevent it by specifying a non-root user that has a > real home dir using the -u parameter to spamd. > >The other way is to do these things: > >Stop spamd from creating a user_prefs with the -c option. > >Disable bayes OR use SQL bayesstore OR set bayes_path to someplace > not relative to the homedir. Be careful with bayes_path, as the last > part is a partial filename. Basically append "/bayes" to whatever > path you want to use. I'd suggest also specifying bayes_file_mode > 0777 with bayes_path. > >Disable the AWL OR use SQL OR set > auto_whitelist_path/auto_whitelist_file_mode in a similar fashion to > bayes. Also append /auto_whitelist to the path, as this is really a > path+filename just like with bayes.
Many thanks, that may be the answer to my problem, I'm editing that into my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf right now. But from the log on a -SIGHUP to spamd: Dec 15 18:03:21 coyote spamd[26244]: config: failed to parse line, skipping: auto_whitelist_mode 0777 it didn't squawk about the bayes_mode 0777 though. From the local.cf: ------- bayes_path /home/gene/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 auto_whitelist_path /home/gene/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_mode 0777 ------- Bet thats supposed to be auto_whitelist_file_mode 0777, I'll try that. Yup, no more bitching. Now to see if it works... Nope, but the error message is slightly different. Added a user_prefs_path and a user_prefs_file_mode too but it spit them out on the -SIGHUP. Tried another variatioin and it spit that out too. Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating myself half to death for at least a week on this. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
