Why do I keep getting .spamassassin/ .pyzor/ .razor/ in my /

[Koen Teugels]

I don't have a user mailscanner in etc/passwd. But mailscanner runs on
he system as root. And root has as homedir /root

Koen

Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Koen
>
> and what does /etc/passwd say for the user MailScanner runs as?
>
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> Koen Teugels wrote:
>
>> on RH you have to change in the /etc/crontab HOME to /root if you run
>> the updates in cron.. Maybe on other linux dist. is it the same.
>>
>> Koen
>>
>> Remco Barendse wrote:
>>
>>> Could it be one of the perl modules that is outdated?
>>>
>>> I do remember seeing something similar on the list.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Remco
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is from /etc/passwd
>>>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>>> cron:x:16:16:cron:/var/spool/cron:/bin/false
>>>>
>>>> Guess that's not it, nor the root of the cron user?
>>>>
>>>> I have this behaviour on a gentoo box and on a RHEL box.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Julian Field wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but where is the home dir of the root user, according to
>>>>> /etc/passwd?
>>>>>
>>>>> Remco Barendse wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi list!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I keep finding directories for .spamassassin/ .pyzor/ .razor/ in the
>>>>>> root
>>>>>> of my filesystem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I delete them, they keep coming back. Shouldn't they be in the
>>>>>> homedir of the root user?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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