Matus,

* Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>:
> > * [email protected] <[email protected]>:
> > > The home directory for the username spamassassin is probably set to
> > > /nonexistant in the passwd file (or whatever it is in Ubuntu).
> 
> On 01.11.09 23:23, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. I wish, it was that easy, but it is not. The $HOME is
> > /home/spamassassin.
> 
> you have passed the "-u spamass-milter" option. That means
> that SA-milter will pass username of the recipient to spamd if there's
> one recipient, so the recipient's homedir will be used. However, if there

That explains it! I never bothered to question this setting, as I thought it
would instruct the milter to run as user spamass-milter, which seemed kind of
wishful to me.


> are more recipients, SA-milter will pass the provided username
> (spamass-milter) to the spamd, so it's apparently the spamass-milter user
> whose directory is /nonexistent.

I will track this a little to see that it really fixes this particular
problem.

> However, that should not be a reason why your SA crashes.

Agreed. Any ideas how I could trap this better? I run spamd in debug mode
debugging "spamd". Running debug with option "all" seemed a little too heavy
to me. Is there best practice to trace the crashes?

p...@rick

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