On 2/19/08, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agnello George wrote: > > i have checked the logs and mail sacnning is happeing :-) ... but what > > i see is the following in the logs : > > > > Feb 19 18:37:52 vps1 spamd[7508]: spamd: still running as root: user > > not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to > > nobody > > It means that spamc (or whatever you're using with "Smatermail") isn't > passing a username with -u / whatever. Non-sql bayes and AWL won't work > like this. You should probably create a user for spamd (say spamd) and > start spamd with the -u username option. > > Daryl > > yes i follow this link to create the user http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/spam.htm
once i did that i restarted spam with the following option spamd -u spamd -d -i -s /var/log/spamd.log --allowed-ips 216.xx.xx.xx and then that error message disappeared !!! :-) -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com
