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
