On 2015-12-29 20:41 -0500, Bill Cole wrote:
> Neither su nor sudo magically changes the permissions or ownership of
> files. If you pass filenames as arguments they must be readable by the
> user actually running sa-learn, which is the *unprivileged* user
> handling the system-wide BayesDB ("amavis" in the case originating
> this thread, but "spamd" and "defang" are other common ones...) In
> most reasonably well-secured systems using Maildir message stores, the
> Maildirs are all owned by individual users or by one user that handles
> delivery to "virtual users" understood by the MTA and IMAP or POP
> server by not by the OS. That is generally NOT the same user running
> spamd or content filters for a system-wide BayesDB. As a result,
> relearning has to be done as root, shuttling data from files owned by
> one user into a process running as another.
You are right. The reason it works for me is that I don't use a
systemwide DB.
May I ask that you turn down the sarcasm a bit?
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