spamassassin and sendmail

[Matt Kettler]

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Craig White wrote:
> I'm confused - when I look at the output of
>
> /var/log/maillog shows...
>
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Creating default_prefs
> [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Cannot write
> to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Couldn't create readable
> default_prefs for [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
>

Since MailScanner doesn't use spamd, it sounds like you've got some other way of
calling SA in place.

Perhaps a leftover call to spamc in procmail.rc that's trying to use the bayes
DB as some other user?

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