bayes problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 12 16:30:11 GMT 2004


At 15:57 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>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.

No it doesn't!

>   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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