On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:57 +1200, Lists wrote:
> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:09 +1200, Kate Kleinschafer wrote:
> >   
> >>> I'm trying to run sudo -u postfix spamassassin -D -p
> >>> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -t < MESSAGE.MAI and I would
> >
> > That does not switch the environment. Try something like this...
> >
> >   sudo -u postfix env | grep ^USER
> >   sudo -u postfix env | grep ^HOME
> 
> This gives USER=postfix and HOME=/root

I know. :)  That was meant for your enlightenment...

> >> Do you know how I can tell which user is running?
> >> i.e. I have a line
> >> [8357] dbg: config: mkdir /root/.spamassassin failed: mkdir 
> >                             ^^^^^
> > Sic. That's not the postfix user's HOME nor env.
> 
> sorry for my ignorance but what does env mean?

Environment.

> also if its not ~/root/.spamassassin folder what folder is it?

Ahem. It should be your postfix user's HOME. Or whatever HOME is set for
the SA scanning process.

> >> /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at 
> >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1577
> >>
> >> The permissions on the folder are drw-rw-rw- root:root

Not like that for /root, though. The postfix user does not have write
permissions in root's home. And rightly so...


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