Re: Newbie question

[Andy Jezierski]

"Golden, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/21/2006 10:07:33 AM:

> Hi all,
>
> I just took over the administration of spamassassin, since my
> coworker moved on.  I'm not really familiar with a lot of this.  The
> problem I am having is this:
>
> A user has a legitimatly high AWL score (because of rules determined
> by management).  Now they want the user to be "reset".  I tried
> using this command (spamassassin --remove-addr-from-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and several variations, but It doesn't
> seem to work.  I finally ran the command with a debug and this is what I got:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] .spamassassin]# spamassassin -D -R --remove-addr-from-whitelist=
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: scor
> LOCAL_nasty_image_link_RULE 10000
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM]

First fix your local rule and update your subject tagging. See the UPGRADE doc.


> debug: Tie-ing to DB file R/W in /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist
> debug: auto-whitelist (db-based): [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ip=none scores 0/0
> SpamAssassin auto-whitelist: removing address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> debug: DB addr list: untie-ing and unlocking.
> debug: DB addr list: file locked, breaking lock.
> debug: unlock: 24237 unlink /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock
>
> Even after this, the score still remains the same.    I am running
> this on Fedora Core 1.  
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How are you invoking SA? The command you ran was run under the root account, SA doesn't run using that account. You need to run that command using the same ID.

Andy