On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:12:24 +0000, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > >I have spamassassin already 100% installed in a Linux server. >I just want to know how to run it as user qscand without having to type >"./spamd -u qscand start &", so i can start it at boot time. > >Regards, >Mário Gamito > >Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:44:16 +0000, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've just installed spamassassin. >>> >>> I'ts been a long time since i've installed the last mail server and i >>> never used version 3. >>> >>> Ok, i've compiled it and copied spamd to /etc/init.d >>> >>> If i just run "./spamd start", it will run as root and stucks the terminal. >>> >>> So, i'm running "./spamd -u qscand start &". >>> >>> Is there any place where i can configure the user qscan to be the user >>> that spamassassin runs by default ? >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> Warm Regards, >>> Mário Gamito >> >> From past experience it's usually easier to lob SA in from rpm/yum. I >> run it here on 3 servers and (knock on wood), this approach has yet to >> cause a problem. >> >> It's worth noting that one of the mail programs (who's name escapes >> me) installs SA; I pull that off as part of my setup since I don't use >> nix as a workstation so it has no reason to run a mail client. >> >> After install it's just a matter of running setup from the cl and >> enabling spamassassin (if it hasn't already been enabled). >> >> This will of course depend very much on exactly what flavour of nix >> you are running, your mailserver and various other things. I use >> CentOS and have been very pleased with it. >> >> Let me know if you need a step by step guide; I have one kicking about >> here somewhere from the 'old days' of FC3. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Nigel >> I'm assuming you are running this under qmail? If I recall correctly www.qmailrocks.org has a decent section on getting SA working with qmail; though it's been a while since I tried. Hope that helps Kind regards Nigel
