spamassassin and sendmail

[Craig White]

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]

]# ls -al /root/.spamassassin/
total 5756
drwxrw----    2 root     root         4096 May 16 08:51 .
drwxr-x---   28 root     root         4096 May 15 21:04 ..
-rw-rw----    1 root     root       172032 May 16 08:50 auto-whitelist
-rw-------    1 root     root           28 May 16 08:51 bayes.lock
-rw-------    1 root     root           84 May 16 08:51
bayes.lock.linserv2.mullenpr.com.16030
-rw-rw----    1 root     root       331776 May 16 08:50 bayes_seen
-rw-rw----    1 root     root      3866624 May 16 08:50 bayes_toks
-rw-rw----    1 root     root      1830912 May 16 08:51 bayes_toks.new
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         1218 Dec 14  2003 user_prefs

on other systems, I am using postfix and MailScanner runs as user
postfix and I don't have this problem. I note that MailScanner runs as
user root in this setup.

This is an upgrade from an earlier MailScanner & spamassassin and I
tried to upgrade the bayes db and ended up replacing it with the
downloadable starter db from fortress systems.

Craig

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