Mailwatch Permission Problems

[Peter Russell]

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You should double check this on the mailwatch list, but i think you
should have the ownership of the bayes files changed to root.apache ?
Pete

Gerry Doris wrote:
> I was hoping for some help on permissions.  I had everything working just
> fine on a Fedora Core 2 box that I upgraded on the weekend.  Today I
> noticed that I can no longer run sa-learn from mailwatch.  I get the
> following permission error and I can't work out how to fix it...
>
> SA Learn: error code 13 returned from sa-learn: bayes expire_old_tokens:
> lock: 26855 cannot create lockfile //.spamassassin/bayes.mutex:
> Permission denied
>
> In MailScanner.conf I have both "run as user" and "run as group"  blank.
> The .spamassassin directory that being used is /root/.spamassassin.
> There's a bayes.mutex file in this directory that's being updated
> regularly as mail arrives.
>
> Naturally, sa-learn runs great as root from the command line.
>
> --
> Gerry
>
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
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