Matt Kettler wrote:
Rob Kudyba wrote:
SA 3.02 on RH 8, perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i686-linux
How can we make the below errors disappear? Also, what does the (unknown) mean in the below log snips?
Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: debug: mkdir //.spamassassin failed: mkdir //.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: debug: open of AWL file failed: lock: 16878 cannot create tmp lockfile //.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.herbie.raeinternet.com.16878 for //.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory
Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: logmsg: clean message (-2.8/5.5) for (unknown):99 in 2.8 seconds, 2510 bytes. Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: clean message (-2.8/5.5) for (unknown):99 in 2.8 seconds, 2510 bytes.
Apr 11 14:55:38 herbie spamd[16880]: debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks
My guess is you are running spamd as root, and calling spamc as root also.
In this case, for security reasons spamd will revoke privileges to the user "nobody". It would appear that on your RH8 box, "nobody" has a home directory of /, which it has no privilege to write to. (which is a good thing. Nobody is supposed to be a user of no real privilege)
If you're just doing a site-wide setup I'd strongly suggest creating a
"spamd" user, and giving it a home directory that it has RW access to.
Pass this user with the -u parameter to either spamd or spamc. This way
SA will use the spamd user's home directory to store bayes data in, and
will still run as a non-root user.
Not using spamc at the moment. Running spamd as user nobody.
nobody 16877 0.0 1.1 26356 5848 ? S Apr08 0:01 /usr/local/bin/perl -T -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u nobody -d -x -D
nobody 16878 0.0 4.0 30208 20712 ? S Apr08 1:07 spamd child
nobody 16879 0.0 4.1 30308 21132 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child
nobody 16880 0.0 4.0 29832 20816 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child
nobody 16881 0.0 4.0 30048 20916 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child
nobody 16882 0.0 4.0 29792 20848 ? S Apr08 1:08 spamd child
in /etc/passwd: nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
So I'm guessing a fix would be: mkdir /home/nobody
and in /etc/passwd, change Nobody's entry to : nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/home/nobody:/sbin/nologin
