Jon, Typically, it's the difference between UNIX and Windows. If you edited a conf file in Windows and used binary mode to transfer it to the SA machine, the ^M would be in the conf file. There are a couple of ways around it. The first is to transfer in ASCII mode, the second is to run dos2unix on the file and the third is to edit the conf file in vi on the SA machine. If you choose the third option, open the file in vi and you should see ^M at the end of each line. Type :1,$ s/^v^m// what you will actually see is :1,$ s/^M// and press enter. The ^V won't actually appear, but it will force vi to look for ^M vice the ^ character followed by M.
Hope this helps. Giff -----Original Message----- From: Jon D. Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:01 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: prefs directories with "^M" in the name Hi all, Ive read the FAQ and still dont find this issue. Configuration: Spamassassin 3.0.4 OS: Fedora Core 4 SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -u spamassassin -x -P --virtual-config-dir=/usr/share/spamassassin/%u.prefs" So, my prefs files are all being stored in /usr/share/spamassassin Everything seems to be running fine. When I cd into /usr/share/spamassassin and do an ls, I see: members.prefs members.prefs^M (control M, not ^ and M) If I remove the ^M version, after some period of time, they come back. What is creating these? And how do I fix it? Thanks! Jon
