> On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Matt Kettler wrote: > >Brian Kendig wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>> On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: > >>>> I'm running spamd as "spamd -d -x -u nobody", I've commented out > >>>> AWL from v310.pre, and I set "bayes_auto_learn 0" so that it > >>>> shouldn't try to create a Bayes database. I have no idea why it > >>>> keeps complaining about not being able to create a file in > >>>> /dev/null. > >>> > >>> What is user nobody's home dir set to? > >> > >> User "nobody"'s home directory is "/dev/null". Why is spamd 3.1.0 > >> is trying to create anything there, and how do I prevent it from > >> trying to do so? > > > >SpamAssassin tools in general default to creating bayes and AWL > > directories relative to the current user's homedir. > > > >spamd also defaults to creating a default user_prefs there. > > > >The best way to prevent it by specifying a non-root user that has a > > real home dir using the -u parameter to spamd. > > > >The other way is to do these things: > > > >Stop spamd from creating a user_prefs with the -c option. > > > >Disable bayes OR use SQL bayesstore OR set bayes_path to someplace > > not relative to the homedir. Be careful with bayes_path, as the last > > part is a partial filename. Basically append "/bayes" to whatever > > path you want to use. I'd suggest also specifying bayes_file_mode > > 0777 with bayes_path. > > > >Disable the AWL OR use SQL OR set > > auto_whitelist_path/auto_whitelist_file_mode in a similar fashion to > > bayes. Also append /auto_whitelist to the path, as this is really a > > path+filename just like with bayes. > > Many thanks, that may be the answer to my problem, I'm editing that > into my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf right now. But from the log on > a -SIGHUP to spamd: > > Dec 15 18:03:21 coyote spamd[26244]: config: failed to parse line, > skipping: auto_whitelist_mode 0777 > > it didn't squawk about the bayes_mode 0777 though. > > >From the local.cf: > ------- > bayes_path /home/gene/.spamassassin/bayes > bayes_file_mode 0777 > auto_whitelist_path /home/gene/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist > auto_whitelist_mode 0777 > ------- > Bet thats supposed to be auto_whitelist_file_mode 0777, I'll try that. > Yup, no more bitching. Now to see if it works... Nope, but the error > message is slightly different. Added a user_prefs_path and a > user_prefs_file_mode too but it spit them out on the -SIGHUP. Tried > another variatioin and it spit that out too. > > Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating > myself half to death for at least a week on this.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html -- Anthony Peacock CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School WWW: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/ "Screens are sometimes called displays because they display stuff ..." - UNIX for Dummies.
