On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> howdy folks. > <snip> > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its > uid to 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a > problem as it tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in > its $HOME with is nonexistent. One recommendation I found was to > change the user for spamd from nobody to spamd, and create that > user for just this purpose. This seems fine, but I don't like to > migrate too far from default configs. Any other suggestions? is > there something simple I'm missing here? (probably). is this new > user, spamd, the way to go or should I be tweaking some other conf > to make this work. > > thanks > > A > I run Sendmail and procmail, along with SpamAssassin. In /etc/procmailrc I use: # Send through SpamAssassin DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -- Raquel ============================================================ There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them. --Father Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
