Thanks for the response. I would not mind running spamd as root, but I get the same error and the documentation have found that is when it tries to run as root it runs as nobody
Thank you, Richard Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 2:46 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: starting spamd On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:37:35PM -0700, spamassassin wrote: > bayes: cannot open bayes databases /root/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie > failed: Permission denied > > spamd --helper-home-dir=/home/spamd --username=spamd --groupname=spamd > --allow-tell -d start the spamd user is unlikely to be able to access root's homedir. > But it continues to try to access the root home folder and gets > permission denied. > Can anyone please tell me what I am missing How are you trying to use spamd? If site-wide, use bayes_path and the other appropriate config options to do side-wide. If per-user, don't force spamd to run as non-root. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: I'm just a peripheral visionary.
