On 23-May-2002 at 15:38:32 Corwin Grey wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:05:57PM +0100, John Horne wrote: >> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[29334]: connection from >> localhost [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 32922 >> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[5]: Still running as >> root: user not specified, not found, or set to root. Fall back >> to nobody. >> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[5]: identified spam >> (5.2/5.0) for (unknown):60001 in 0 seconds. >> > I'm guessing that you are probably running spamc via a global > /etc/procmailrc file. > No, we run spamc from the Exim MTA, however I think your statements are still applicable in as much as the MTA will run as root.
My understanding though was that the MTA runs as root so that it can change to the (normal) user which we have configured it to use when it runs 'spamc'. Hence I thought spamc would run as the (MTA) configured user. Looking at the spamd man page says that if spamd is running as root then it will take on the userid of the person using spamc - hence I would expect to see a username in the messages and not 'unknown'. Confusing. I may need well need to look at the Exim docs again. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available from public key servers _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
