porterj wrote: > I just set-up spamassassin on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 mail server and it > appears that spamassassin is working as I am seeing messages that are now > tagged as spam. > > However, in my /var/log/maillog I keep seeing a message similar to the > following and am unsure how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated. > Apparently you're calling spamc as root.
For safety, spamd will *NEVER* scan mail while executing as root, so it is falling back to the user "nobody". Normally, the bayes and AWL databases are stored in a user's home directory, however, "nobody" does not have a home directory it can write to (and should not to maintain security!). I'm not sure how you've set things up for calling spamc. If you're doing a "per user" config, this will pretty much only happen for mail going to root, so no big deal. If you're always calling spamc as root, I'd suggest creating a non-root user account that has a home directory to scan mail as. You can get spamc to use this user, instead of the current user, by adding "-u scanuser" to your spamc command line. Also be aware you'll need to su to this user before using sa-learn to maintain your bayes DB, but that's not so bad. > Begin message in /var/log/maillog > > Apr 12 10:27:44 servername spamd[18456]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded > Apr 12 10:27:44 servername spamd[18456]: 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, <GEN212> line 4. > Apr 12 10:27:44 servername spamd[18456]: spamd: processing message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for root:99 > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: > Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm > line > 1536 > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create > tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.servername.domain.com > .18456 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: auto-whitelist: open of > auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile > /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.servername.domain.com.18456 for > /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: bayes: locker: safe_lock: cannot > create tmp lockfile > /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.servername.domain.com.18456 for > /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: spamd: clean message (0.0/3.5) for > root:99 in 0.6 seconds, 8188 bytes. > Apr 12 10:27:45 servername spamd[18456]: spamd: result: . 0 - > scantime=0.6,size=8188,user=root,uid=99,required_score=3.5,rhost=servername,raddr=127.0.0. > 1,rport=55310,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,autolearn=failed > > End message in /var/log/maillog > > Thanks, > JP >
