On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | spamc runs as the user. It appears that the user's user_prefs file > | is read (hence its entry in the header) but the message is processed > | as root, using root's user_prefs file. > > That is sure to happen if > 1) spamc is run as root > and > 2) no user to run as is specified (-u)
Well, I have it set up to run as -u (username) in .procmailrc (in each user's home directory). > | I believe the problem can be fixed by allowing spamd to run as the user, > | rather than root (this would also get rid of the "falling back to nobody" > | messages in the logs. > > Actually, this is a real bug. Ever since I upgraded to 2.30 (or was > it 2.31; in any case I'm using 2.31 now) I get that warning for > _every_ message, even though I do specify what user to run as. I even > used tcpflow to ascertain that spamc did tell spamd what user to drop > to. spamd ignores that, however. > > | I haven't looked through the source, and I'm not a Perl programmer, so > | will leave the details to the maintainers. Just thought I'd toss this out > | for discussion. > > I'm not a perl programmer either. Someone needs to put this in > bugzilla, though. (I don't like bugzilla's UI, and I'm not near a > handy web browser, do you want to submit it?) Sure, I'll do it. I'm running 2.31 also. -- Bob -- _______________________________ Bob Sully - Malibyte Consulting Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.com "Years of dedication, and a natural inclination" - J. Buffett ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
