Package: spamassassin Version: 3.4.0-6 cron.daily spamassassin fails because the tmp file can't be created. script seems to be executed in /root/
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: util: failed to create a temporary file '/.spamassassin9891RWTlsmtmp': Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1123. sa-update failed for unknown reasons Possible solutions: - cron-script could specifiy /tmp or /var/lib/spamassassin when starting sa-update - Util.pm tries to use Env-Var TMPDIR which doesn't seems to be configured, so it could be set to /tmp or /var/lib/spamassassine for the execution of sa-update -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages spamassassin depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii init-system-helpers 1.22 pn libarchive-tar-perl <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii libnet-dns-perl 0.81-2 ii libnetaddr-ip-perl 4.075+dfsg-1+b1 ii libsocket6-perl 0.25-1+b1 ii libsys-hostname-long-perl 1.4-3 ii libwww-perl 6.08-1 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii perl-modules [libio-zlib-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 Versions of packages spamassassin recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.18-7 ii libio-socket-inet6-perl 2.72-1 ii libmail-spf-perl 2.9.0-3 ii perl [libsys-syslog-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 pn sa-compile <none> ii spamc 3.4.0-6 Versions of packages spamassassin suggests: ii libdbi-perl 1.631-3+b1 ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.002-2 pn libmail-dkim-perl <none> ii perl [libcompress-zlib-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 pn pyzor <none> pn razor <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/spamassassin changed: ENABLED=1 OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 1 --helper-home-dir" PIDFILE="/var/run/spamd.pid" CRON=1 /etc/spamassassin/local.cf changed: report_safe 0 required_score 10.0 clear_report_template report "_TESTSSCORES(, )_" ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit endif # Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit -- no debconf information