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Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:03:49PM -0500, David Clymer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:43, David Purton wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote:
> > > > > I set up sa-exim over the weekend and it works nicely, but...
> > > > 
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > > I can't even find where the daemon stores the whitelist database to
> > > > > delete file :(

[snip]

> > > 
> > 
> > Woohoo - thankyou
> > 
> > Any ideas where it was storing this stff before?
> > 
> > dc
> > 
> 
> I believe that spamassassin stores whitelists, bayesian tokens, etc in
> the home directory of the user that it runs as. This allows you to have
> spamd do filtering based on data specific to each user.
> 
> If you are running spamd, check the /root/ directory for your missing
> whitelists or other data. If I remember correctly, spamd runs as root
> initially, then switches to the user which is requesting a scan (either
> the user spamc is run as, or as specified like so: spamc -u bob). If the
> user doesnt exist, it falls back to nobody.

So in the case of sa-exim - I assume spamc is run as user Debian-exim,
right?

Debian-exim of course has no home directory - so where would shere
would it have been puuting said files?

It is definitely not putting them anywhere in /root

cheers

dc

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David Purton
dcpurton@chariot.net.au

For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
                                 2 Chronicles 16:9a

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