Re: Still running as root?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, John Fleming wrote:
It's in the manual.  Add the following line to your system wide procmail 
file:

DROPPRIVS=YES
-Dan

another machine.  Everything installs fine (make tests=100%) and seem to
run
but in /var/log/maillog, I get these entries:
info: setuid to root succeeded
spamd[15901]: Still running as root: user not specified with -u, not
found,
or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.
I get this if I call spamc from /etc/procmailrc.  However, if I call from
individual users' .procmailrc files, it runs as that user, and stats
(sa-stats.pl) generated from the mail log are more useful too.  - John
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