Re: Debian spamass-milt help needed

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 20), Derek J. Balling said:
> So I'm testing my install, but it seems to be trying to look for
> root's preferences. (log at bottom).
> 
> I put:
> 
> spamass-milter:
>       OPTIONS="-u nobody"
> 
> spamassassin:
>       OPTIONS="-c -m 10 -u nobody"
> 
> ... and have restarted both of them. What am I doing wrong? Why is it
> trying to read 'root's preferences and not 'dredd's?

Run ps axw | grep spam, and verify that spamass-milter is really
getting "-u nobody" passed to it.  spamd is definitely getting its
options, because if it were running as root it would have been able to
create ~/.spamassassin.

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