On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

hI,

[...]
> > > I have the below permissions and i also tested it running as normal
> > > user, I get
> > >
> > > [28976] error: auto-whitelist: cannot open auto_whitelist_path
> > > /var/lib/spamass/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > [28976] warn: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed:
> > > auto-whitelist: cannot open auto_whitelist_path
> > > /var/lib/spamass/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > >
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] spamass]# ll
> > > total 8
> > > -rw-------  1 root root 12288 Jul  5 18:58 auto-whitelist
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] spamass]#
> > >
> > >
> >
> > your auto-whitelist file is owned by root with no read permissions for
> > any other user.  spamd will not run as root. if it's invoked as root
> > it'll setuid to 'nobody' ... so you don't have permission to do anything
> > with this file.
> >
> > fix the file ownership and you should be able to resolve your problem.
> >
> > Alan
> >
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>
> Hi Alan
>
> Thanks a Lot Alan and Matthias
>
> It worked perfectly

one more word please, what have you done to solve the problem? file
ownership/permissions, or the nfs related thing?

regards,
Matthias

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