The amazing case of the missing .spamassassin directory

[Jules Field]

MailScanner will run as the "Run As User" and "Run As Group" you have 
set in MailScanner.conf, which should be "postfix". So you need to 
ensure that its home directory (/var/spool/postfix in your case) is 
writeable by the postfix user, and you will need to do all the sa-learn 
commands as the postfix user as well.

On 09/09/2009 15:54, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>     I was running sa-learn after moving spam that was classified as 
> ham to
> the spam folders here in one of our mail servers (i.e. some
> housecleaning). But, when I did so, I got a lot of messages like these:
>
> Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined)
> bayes: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile
> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.mail.domain.com.908 for
> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: No such file or directory
> bayes: expire_old_tokens: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile
> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.mail.domain.com.910 for
> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: No such file or directory
>
> I understand it can't find the said lock file because the directory
> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin does not exist. But, who creates the
> said directory? I looked at MailScanner.conf and
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf. Right now I still do not know who is supposed
> to create the said directory (which is probably the first step in
> finding out why it is not being created, perhaps due to some permission
> issue thingie).
>

Jules

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