Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u I have looked around trying to figure out what to do about this but no luck so far. Maybe someone here could let me know how to fix this? I'm running Ubuntu Se

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Axb
On 07/15/2013 03:16 PM, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u I have looked around trying to figure out what to do about this but no luck so far. Maybe someone here could

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.07.2013 16:16, Christian Dysthe kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: > > spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u > > I have looked around trying to figure out what to do about this but no > luck so far. Maybe someone he

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 15.07.2013 16:16, Christian Dysthe kirjoitti: >> Hi, >> >> Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: >> >> spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u >> >> I have looked around trying to figu

Re: Rule 'TVD_FROM_1' causing all our emails' spam scores go up

2013-07-15 Thread Scott Witte
Kevin A. McGrail wrote > A rule that solely checks for a domain ending in a digit cannot have a > 3.5 score. It's far too high. > > I'm adding a score of 1.0 to the rulesrc which should add a ceiling of > 1.0 to this for masschecks. Kevin, I fear this didn't really take hold, switched back or

Re: Rule 'TVD_FROM_1' causing all our emails' spam scores go up

2013-07-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/15/2013 12:08 PM, Scott Witte wrote: Kevin A. McGrail wrote A rule that solely checks for a domain ending in a digit cannot have a 3.5 score. It's far too high. I'm adding a score of 1.0 to the rulesrc which should add a ceiling of 1.0 to this for masschecks. Kevin, I fear this didn't re

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u spamd uses default port 783, with is below 1024 imho :=) only ports over 1023 can run as daemons without started as

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
Axb skrev den 2013-07-15 15:35: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u as per ye ole SA docs on http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.3.x/doc/spamd.html -u username, --username=username Run as username hopefully ubuntu maintainers

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.07.2013 19:51, Benny Pedersen kirjoitti: > Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: > >> Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the >> logs: >> spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u > > spamd uses default port 783, with is below 1024 imho :=) > >

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:14 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 15.07.2013 19:51, Benny Pedersen kirjoitti: > > Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: > > > >> Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the > >> logs: > >> spamd: still running as root: user not specified wi

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 15.07.2013 19:51, Benny Pedersen kirjoitti: Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u spamd uses default port 7

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread RW
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:41:08 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: > It uses the Apache model. There is a parent process that runs as root > to manage the sockets which then forks off children as the "-u" user > to actually process the messages. If you don't specify the "-u" user > the children stay as

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 12:05 AM +0100 07/16/2013, RW wrote: OTOH when I just tried this in 3.3.2, spamd didn't to pick-up a test rule I added to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs (which worked with the spamassassin script). Do you have allow_user_rules enabled in your local.cf? According to http://spamassassin.apache.o

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread RW
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:26:12 -0600 Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 12:05 AM +0100 07/16/2013, RW wrote: > >OTOH when I just tried this in 3.3.2, spamd didn't to pick-up a test > >rule I added to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs (which worked with the > >spamassassin script). > > Do you have allow_user_rule