Don't mean to parrot but I've duplicated this problem on another system. This is from using the rpm below (which rpm may be irrelevant, but the SA rev is). I've also found the problem is somewhere in &do_awl_tests in PerMsgStatus.pm but my perl isn't good enough to figure out what's going on here.
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.41-1.i386.rpm --- On startup, with spamd OPTIONS="--debug --daemonize --create-prefs --auto-whitelist --username=nobo dy --nouser-config --allowed-ips=192.168.1.10,127.0.0.1" Sep 25 13:34:44 mogwai spamd[15500]: debug: 15500 Trying to get lock on /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist pass 0 Sep 25 13:34:44 mogwai spamd[15500]: debug: Tie-ing to DB file R/W in /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist Sep 25 13:34:47 mogwai spamd[15500]: debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open auto_whitelist_path /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist: No such file or directory But: drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody nobody 4096 Sep 25 13:42 /var/spool/spamassassin/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 25 13:26 /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist And there *is* a file being created, but not what I asked for: -rw------- 1 nobody root 28672 Sep 25 08:42 auto-whitelist.db Cheers, -zeek ------------------------------------------------------- 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