Re: Debian spamass-milt help needed

[Derek J. Balling]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 10:53  AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Nope, it wasn't.

/etc/init.d/spamass-milter:
        DEFAULT=/etc/defaults/spamass-milt

doesn't work well when the file in the debian package is:

        /etc/default/spamass-milter

Couple subtle differences there.

Now, I'm seeing:

May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: logmsg: Creating default_prefs 
[/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: Creating default_prefs 
[/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: using 
"/nonexistent/.spamassassin" for user state dir
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: mkdir 
/nonexistent/.spamassassin failed: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission 
denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1181
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: Cannot write to 
/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: logmsg: Couldn't create readable 
default_prefs for [/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: Couldn't create readable 
default_prefs for [/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: read_scoreonly_config: cannot 
open "/home/dredd/.spamassassin/user_prefs": No such file or directory
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: user has changed
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: bayes: 12812 untie-ing
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: using 
"/home/dredd/.spamassassin" for user state dir
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: mkdir 
/home/dredd/.spamassassin failed: mkdir /home/dredd/.spamassassin: 
Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1181  
No such file or directory
May 21 11:25:04 narn spamd[12812]: debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot 
scan: /home/dredd/.spamassassin/bayes_toks