bayes problem

[James Hammett]

At 03:16 PM +0000 on 3/12/04, you (Julian Field) wrote:
>At 14:53 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>>Ok MailScanner guru's, I need some help.  I seem to have a problem when
>>writing to my bayes:
>>
>>Mar 12 08:41:54 ARAGORN spamd[1704]: info: setuid to root succeeded
>>Mar 12 08:41:54 ARAGORN spamd[1704]: Still running as root: user not
>>specified with -u, not found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.
>>Mar 12 08:41:54 ARAGORN spamd[1704]: processing message
>><1c7a01c40840$24bfdf60$45a610ac at fleetone.com> for root:99.
>>Mar 12 08:41:54 ARAGORN spamd[1704]: cannot write to
>>/root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored
>
>MailScanner doesn't use spamd at all, so these messages cannot be generated
>by MailScanner.
>--

Mailscanner calls spamd.  The problem LOOKS like mailscanner is
falling back to user nobody.  However user nobody does not able to
access the  bayes_journal.

Hope this helps, I'm not an expert on Mailscanner or spamassasin, but
that looks like the problem to me.

thanks,
James
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