On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 06:01:06PM -0500, tekmonster wrote:
> After restarting though I now get the following error

These have nothing to do with sa-update fwiw.

> 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. 

You're calling spamd as root, so it's trying to be safe here and falls back to
nobody.

> 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 

user nobody can't write to root's homedir.


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