On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Toni Mueller wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 19.08.2009 at 13:33:20 -0400, Gene Heskett 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> In /var/lib/sa/keys
>
>I have neither such a directory, nor any keys in either of
>
>/var/lib/spamassassin nor /var/db/spamassassin (depending on which of
>my machines I look at).
>
>But
>
>> [r...@coyote keys]# cd /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/
>> [r...@coyote sa-update-keys]# ls -l
>> total 32
>> -rw------- 1 gene gene 6743 2009-08-19 11:51 pubring.gpg
>> -rw------- 1 gene mail 5021 2008-09-13 08:44 pubring.gpg~
>> -rw------- 1 gene mail    0 2008-04-01 04:52 secring.gpg
>> -rw------- 1 gene mail 1200 2008-04-01 04:52 trustdb.gpg
>
>I'm a bit hesitant to believe that such permissions will get you usable
>rule sets, provided they have similar permissions, because I guess that
>spamd is running under a different UID, right?
>
No, spamd, and all other parts of spamassassin are running as the user gene 
direct from the . source called in from the spamassassin launcher in 
/etc/init.d.

>> Should I blow the first set away?,
>
>It would be interesting to find out where these other keys come from,
>lest you break something else.
>
I'll rename the former dir and see what dies.

And 15 minutes later, the only thing that died is the mail server at the tv 
station, not related to this.  I think I'll leave it renamed to wrong-keys 
for a while.
>
>Kind regards,
>--Toni++

Thanks Toni.

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