Ah, it's not safe to open the root directory. You should redirect
email for root to an unprivileged account. 'Nix systems are not
like Windows systems in which you really can't do a blasted thing
as a normal user. They are designed so that the only thing you do
as root is reconfigure the system.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm seeing in my maillog file (SA 3.x running in Debug mode) the
following:
>
> cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update
ignored:
> Permission denied
>
> This is right after all the bayes token statements. It suggests it's a
> problem, but I don't seem to be able to fix it.
>
> My default bayes location is /root/.spamassassin and I've tried making
> permissions on it wide open (777). The files in it are:
>
> -rw------- 1 root root 618496 Jan 28 13:26 auto-whitelist
> -rw------- 1 root root 1323008 Jan 28 14:05 bayes_seen
> -rw------- 1 root root 10489856 Jan 28 14:05 bayes_toks
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1313 Jan 28 13:26 user_prefs
>
> And spam assassin is being started with
>
> service spamassassin start (via root)
>
> So I'm a little lost as to why this error would be coming up. Any
> suggestions?
>
> As I said, I'm not sure this is actually a problem, but it does suggest
that
> the bayes DB's are not being updated.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance,
>
> Chris
>
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> The most important tool in your toolbox is the question "why?".
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