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Calum Mackay writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > any idea why that had that effect?
> 
> yup, SA, running as the user who was getting mail, was unable to move 
> the existing journal file out of the way, since it didn't own it. The 
> sticky bit means that you can only unlink (e.g. move) files that you 
> own, despite having write perm on the directory.

OK, that's a very good point that I'd missed (for one)!

any chance you could write up a FAQ entry on the symptoms and the
resolution for http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/?   I'd
be very grateful, because this has cropped up before on the
list, it's always had me stumped, and that explanation makes
a lot of sense.

- --j.
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