ok, so I added "-u mail" for spamd's startup and now have this in my main log:
Mar 19 10:20:27 bacon spamd[22447]: connection from localhost [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 44544 Mar 19 10:20:27 bacon spamd[22490]: Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Mar 19 10:20:27 bacon spamd[22490]: Couldn't create readable default_prefs for [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] which seems like it's trying to create files in the root home which it obviously can't running as a non-root user. And I get this in my procmail log: procmail: Executing "spamc" procmail: [22456] Tue Mar 19 10:19:46 2002 procmail: Assigning "PATH=/home/jjbacon/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" If it's not running as root, isn't it supposed to use some global prefs? --- FROM spamd.README ----------- If you do not need to let your users define their own rules, maintain their own whitelists, or have non-world-readable home and ~/.spamassassin directories, then just set spamd up to run with the "-u username" option. Since spamd can use auto-whitelisting, which requires it maintain a database of email addresses on-disk, you should use a non-"root" but non-"nobody" user: "mailnull" or" "mail" are good choices, or even create a "spamd" user. --------------------------------- BTW, thanks for all your help. Ed Kasky wrote: > A coupe of things to try: > > Add the following to the top of your .procmailrc > > # set to yes when debugging > VERBOSE=yes > # Remove ## when debugging. Set to no if you want minimal debugging > LOGABSTRACT=all > LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail/procmaillog.`date +%m-%d-%y` > > The location of your logs is up to you - just be sure to set the > privelages according to the user owning the process. > > > > At 11:32 PM Monday, 3/18/2002, you wrote -=> > >> Mar 18 22:01:01 bacon spamd[8224]: connection from localhost [ >> 127.0.0.1 ] at port 36584 >> Mar 18 22:01:01 bacon spamd[9258]: Still running as root: user not >> specified, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. > > > This seems to be telling you there's an error with the user that owns > the spamd process. Read the security section at > http://spamassassin.org/dist/spamd/README.spamd and see if that helps > running as a different user. > > Ed > Ed Kasky > Los Angeles, CA > . . . . . . . . > What we anticipate seldom occurs; > what we least expect generally happens. > --Benjamin Disraeli _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
