Package: dspam Version: 3.6.8-2~erik.1 Severity: normal Hello,
I maintain a sarge backport of dspam[1]. Today I received some suggestions from a user of the backport. Since I think the suggestions apply to the version in unstable as well, I'm forwarding the suggestions to you. My backported packages are identical to the version in unstable, except a change in build-dep: libmysqlclient15-dev => libmysqlclient14-dev I'm also considering trying to get dspam included on backports.org. If you have any objections to this, please let me know. Best regards // Erik [1] - deb http://eddie.ejohansson.se/debian/ sarge main == From Günther Mair == [...] I experienced some trouble when running it straigth away with the dspam-webinterface for learning. Reason: the webinterface while running suexec'ed as "dspam" would not have access to update the log- files in "/var/spool/dspam/data/MYDOMAIN/MYUSERNAME"... They regularly become owned by the "root" user and write-back to them from the webinterfaces becomes impossible (if i don't change root's umask which I would prefer not to.... ;-) ). What I did and what I would like you to consider on this package is the following: - change the init-script to run the dspam daemon as dspam user instead of root (doesn't change anything anyway - just one process needlessly running as root less), while you still may execute the dspam-client apps as root (use the "--chuid" parameter for start-stop- daemon) - chown & chgrp the files beyond /var/spool/dspam to dspam user & dspam group - change the PID-File in your init-script and dspam-default configuration to reside inside the /var/run/dspam directory owned by dspam (so dspam user can write to it) - change the logfile to reside in an directory writeable by dspam (ie. /var/log/dspam/dspam.log) - the dspam_logrotate application should obviously be run as user dspam (or like this: [su - dspam "dspam_logrotate -a 90 -d /var/spool/dspam/data"]), otherwise the rotated logfiles may not be accessible to the dspam-daemon anymore - as actualy happened today with my installation ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (200, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.9 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages dspam depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdspam7 3.6.8-2~erik.1 DSPAM is a scalable and statistica ii libldap2 2.1.30-8 OpenLDAP libraries ii procmail 3.22-11 Versatile e-mail processor -- no debconf information
