I am running fedora 6 and it spamd seemed to be running ok. After restarting though I now get the following error
Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 50439 Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: 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 1147, <GEN5> line 4. Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:99 Jan 19 17:55:06 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 Jan 19 17:55:07 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.nj1hqls01.19756 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Jan 19 17:55:07 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.nj1hqls01.19756 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Jan 19 17:55:07 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: clean message (2.6/5.0) for root:99 in 2.0 seconds, 1652 bytes. Jan 19 17:55:07 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: result: . 2 - DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_MOSTLY scantime=2.0,size=1652,user=root,uid=99,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=50439,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,autolearn=no