On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:18, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > Repost with some editing.
>I did have SA-2.64 installed and was using it with kmail from the >kde-3.3.0 install, heavily hacked FC2 system, present kernel >2.6.12-rc1-mm1. > >This had generated a series of files in /root/.spamassassin > including a bayes_journal, which after about a years running, was > only expanded to about 2700 bytes. Trying to make the spamd/spamc combo work, I installed 3.0.2 exactly as the INSTALL said. > >After setting spamd to be run from /etc/init.d, using the options >in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin of: >---------------- ># Options to spamd >SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H" >---------------- > >which are the defaults apparently, and changing kmails filter for > the spam disposal so it was piped thru spamc, it ran and filtered > about 20 spams properly over the next 20 minutes. > >Then I suddenly start seeing this in the /var/log/maillog: >---------------- >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: connection from >localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 46232 >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: info: setuid to root succeeded >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: Still running as root: user not >specified with -u, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: processing message ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:99. >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: cannot write >to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: >Permission denied >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: clean message (0.0/5.0) for >root:99 in 0.2 seconds, 5182 bytes. >Mar 23 21:49:26 coyote spamd[21906]: result: . 0 - BAYES_50 >scantime=0.2,size=5182,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] >net>,bayes=0.455596022142826,autolearn=failed ---------------- > >FWIW, any attempt to add the --username=root to the above options > file results in spamd failing to restart on a 'service spamd > restart'. And yes, I run as root, there is lots of firealling > between this box and the real planetary network, firewalling thats > never, in 2 years of dsl connection, been penetrated any farther > than a single "New not syn: etc etc" message in the logs. My guard > dogs are good. > >This snippet is indicating that A: it apparently cannot run as root > so it falls back to 'nobody' Why is this? And how can I fix it? >and B: that it cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal. > >The file had disappeared! >I went back thru the shell history to > make sure I hadn't done anything stupid, but the only thing between > the time it worked, and the files disappearance was my looking at > it with the 'less' file viewer. > >So I touched a new one and set the perms to 0666 so it would be >writable. Is this some sort of a berkeleyDB file? If so, how can I regenerate it properly? >That didn't make any difference. The other files in that directory >are being updated if I run a session of sa-learn, but that file >isn't being touched, and although the dates are being updated for >the other 2 main files, no content is actually being added to them > by the sa-learn session as evidence by their unchanging size of > several megs each. > >However, it does seem to be filtering the spam as well as before > after I updated the rules for the 2nd filter in kmail as the marker > strings had been changed some from the 2.64 version. Its also not > marking the subject line [SPAM] like it did before. I'd like it to > if possible. > >>>From this amount of data, can it be determined whats wrong? > >Any help accepted with glee & thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
