Well maybe progress but things are still wrong.
James Lay wrote:
On 8/17/07 11:53 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More questions...
James Lay wrote:
On 8/17/07 11:24 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thanks for the quick reply.
James Lay wrote:
On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I left off below that I am using
spam-milter 0.3.1-1
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I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors
for 10+ years. Always trying to do better....
PLATFORM:
Centos 5.0
1Ghz processor 512Mb memory
Mail server: Scalix 11.1
MTA: Sendmail ver. 8.13.8
Spamassassin: 3.1.9
Webmin: 1.360
I followed the Scalix WiKi spamassassin install instructions:
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowTos/SpamAssassin
I am using Thunderbird 1.5.0.12, sending mail has a significant delay.
The meter just sits there near the beginning for quite some time.
Often, the sending times out.
I read through much of the spamassassin WiKi. Nothing on performance
seems to apply. When I go into the /var/log/maillog, I catch soom real
problems.
I enabled DNS checking (dns_available yes) and restarted spamassassin
via webmin and caught the following in the maillog:
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: connection from
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 48800
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded
Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: still running as root: user
not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
at /usr/bin/spamd line 1161, <GEN4> line 4.
Robert,
What's your startup line to start spamd look like? If you're starting it
like:
Spamd -u spamduser
from file: /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin:
# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
and as you can see below, the actual command that got run was:
/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
So no -u at all!
Is that user in your /etc/passwd file?
No spamduser.
What files would I expect to see owned by spamduser. Oh, wait. If the
user's not there, there better not be any files owned by it....
Doh!
It's running as root then
Gee, I thought that was clear from the maillog lines and running
processes...
But then it has those processes running as 'nobody' as well..
...no goodness there.
Why not? Security (it should be running chrooted then?)? other reasons?
I created a user and group
called spamfilter, then su'd to root, then su'd to spamfilter and ran my
bayes and pyzor setups as spamfilter.
This makes no sense to me. You created the user spamfilter. You logged
in as spamfilter, su'd to root and su'd to spamfiltre? What does that
accomplish? Or are you logged in as James and trying to be spamfilter?
If so does not: login spamfilter do the same thing? (I did a fair bit of
unix back in '93, then nothing for over 10 years...).
When you su to root, then su to spamfilter, you in effect are now logged in
as that user. Because spamd will drop privileges to spamfilter, you should
setup pyzor and razor and run test like spamassassin -D --lint as the user
it will be running as.
I just created the spamfilter userid and group. I did not install pyzor
or razor yet. What are they and why do I want to install them?
I ran the spamassassin -D --lint
I had a bit of a problem adding the -u spamfilter, so I asked on the
Centos list where I was suppose to do this and was told it goes in
/etc/sysconfig/spamassassin. That worked but I am still getting the
errors. Even after a system reboot.
Oh and nothing in the /home/spamfilter/.spamassassin
2264 root 15:48 /usr/bin/spamd -u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H -r
/var/run/spamd.pid
2301 spamfilter 15:48 spamd child
2302 spamfilter 15:48 spamd child
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z sendmail[3913]: l7HK0VeM003913:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=6708,
class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: connection from
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 36972
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: creating default_prefs:
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: config: cannot write to
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: failed to create readable
default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: processing message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:502
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: auto-whitelist: open of
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: identified spam (8.5/5.0) for
root:502 in 2.6 seconds, 7247 bytes.
