Doing some housecleaning... I am running spamd as root, at which point it reverts to 'nobody'.
It then proceeds to complain, understandably, that it does not have permission to write to users' directories. Apr 24 23:56:57 manifold spamd[21442]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody at /usr/bin/spamd line 1152, <GEN353> line 4. Apr 24 23:56:57 manifold spamd[21442]: spamd: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:99 Apr 24 23:56:58 manifold spamd[21442]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.manifold.algebra.com.21442 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Apr 24 23:56:58 manifold spamd[21442]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.manifold.algebra.com.21442 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied I am in a cleanup mode and would like to get rid of these errors, but this one has me stumped. How can it expect to access inside root's directory, if it runs as nobody??? i
