bayes problem

Rob Freeman sysadmin at FLEETONE.COM
Fri Mar 12 16:36:40 GMT 2004


Julian is right.   It is called from Spamassassin.  After performing some
googleing on it, I found the settings I needed to change in the local.cf
file for spamassassin.

Sorry about the confusion.  Need more coffee.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: bayes problem


> 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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