Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:24:09 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800
> > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> >
> > > howdy folks.
> > >
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > I run Sendmail and procmail, along with SpamAssassin. In
> > /etc/procmailrc I use:
> >
> > # Send through SpamAssassin
> > DROPPRIVS=yes
> > :0fw
> > * < 256000
> > | /usr/bin/spamc
>
> yeah, I've seen this solution too, but I'm running SA through
> exim's ACL's and not through procmail. I leave it to my users to
> determine what they do with their spam, I just mark it up before
> delivery.
>
> A
>
That's what I'm doing also.
--
Raquel
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