howdy folks. I've recently abandoned my increasingly unwieldy bogofilter implementation in favor of spamassassin: I'm no longer the only one getting mail through this server; and the bogofilter databases were gradually getting out of whack. So aptitude install spamassassin, works like a charm. A couple tweaks in exim4.conf and its rolling along. But I'm getting these messages in /var/log/mail.log Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: connection from bigmomma [127.0.0.1] at port 41420 Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: setuid to nobody succeeded Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: creating default_prefs: /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: config: cannot write to /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: checking message <20070129190811.6a637656@.bredbandsbolaget.se> for nobody:65534 Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.bigmomma. 32442 for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /non existent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.bigmomma.32442 for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: clean message (0.5/5.0) for nobody:65534 in 12.8 seconds, 6620 bytes. Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: result: . 0 - PLING_PLING scantime=12.8,size=6620,user=nobody,uid=65534,required_score=5.0,rhos t=bigmomma,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=41420,mid=<20070129190811.6a637656@.bredbandsbolaget.se>,autolearn=no As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its uid to 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a problem as it tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in its $HOME with is nonexistent. One recommendation I found was to change the user for spamd from nobody to spamd, and create that user for just this purpose. This seems fine, but I don't like to migrate too far from default configs. Any other suggestions? is there something simple I'm missing here? (probably). is this new user, spamd, the way to go or should I be tweaking some other conf to make this work. thanks A
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