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Jonathan Allen
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [SAtalk] user_prefs ignored SA 2.55
Hi All,
A simple question. I have just installed SA2.6 and have been teaching
it about spam
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:15:29PM +0100 or thereabouts, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A simple question. I have just installed SA2.6 and have been teaching
> it about spam with sa-learn. How do I turn on the Bayesian checking
> so that the learning is put to good use ?
In local.cf:
use_
Hi All,
A simple question. I have just installed SA2.6 and have been teaching
it about spam with sa-learn. How do I turn on the Bayesian checking
so that the learning is put to good use ?
Jonathan
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Jonathan Allen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:43:29PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote:
> > However, I still think that spamd should be able to setuid to the
> > user by itself. According to the man page for spamd:
> > -u username, --username=username
> > R
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:43:29PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote:
> And when I change my /etc/procmailrc file to use "spamassassin -P" instead
> of spamc, then it works fine and uses my user_prefs file. I guess
> something is strange with spamc/spamd.
The answer, I believe, is that when runni
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:43:29PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote:
> However, I still think that spamd should be able to setuid to the
> user by itself. According to the man page for spamd:
>-u username, --username=username
> Run as the named user. The alternative, default
>
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the speedy reply.
And YES, putting the line "DROPPRIVS=yes" into my /etc/procmailrc file
seems to fix the problem. So I guess this is a procmail way to fix my
problem.
However, I still think that spamd should be able to setuid to the
user by itself. According to the man
"Steve Thomas" said:
> I hope that helps, and I also hope it's right!
nice one Steve -- sounds likely to me ;)
--j.
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This is just an semi-educated guess - if I'm wrong, someone please correct
me!
Spamd setuid's to the user running spamc. Since you're calling spamc from a
global procmailrc file, it's being run as root (most likely). If called as
root, spamd won't open user_prefs files.
>From the spamc man page:
