MS, Spamassassin and Bayes

[Jason Williams]

Hello everyone!

As im working to put my mailserver here live, I had a few additional
questions in regards to getting SA gelling correctly with MS.

I've been following the directions per the FAQ on the MS web site, but was
hoping to get a few things clarified.

Here is a snip of some output that was generated when I initiated
spamassassin -D --lint

mailmg# spamassassin -D --lint
debug: Score set 0 chosen.
debug: running in taint mode? no
debug: ignore: using a test message to lint rules
debug: using "/usr/local/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir
debug: using "/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
debug: using "/root/.spamassassin" for user state dir
debug: using "/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user prefs file
debug: using "/root/.spamassassin" for user state dir
debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot scan: /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks

 From what I read on the FAQ, it said that you really dont want your
user_prefs and bayes to be in /root/.spamassassin

Per the FAQ recommendations, I added the following to my
spam.assassin.prefs.conf

auto_whitelist_path        /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode   0644
bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_file_mode            0644
use_bayes 1

Yet, when I run SA in debugging mode, it is still pointing to the
/root/.spamassassin directory. Any reason why this is is still occuring and
how to fix it?

One last thing. In Mailscanner.conf, there are these a few entries (In the
SA section)


SpamAssassin User State Dir =


What's the difference between the following entries below?

SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin

SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir =


Just trying to figure out what location and directory does what.

I appreciate it.

Jason