Package: spampd Version: 2.30-16 Severity: important Heya,
during the start of the spampd daemon the awl.mutex is created with root:root permissions, which results in this error message: spampd[32464]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile /var/cache/spampd/awl.mutex: Permission denied Looks liek the spampd-childs try to access the lockfile which is held by the parent process. one:/var/cache/spampd# ll total 9640 -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl -rw------- 1 root root 6 2007-03-03 09:27 awl.mutex -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks one:/var/cache/spampd# rm awl.mutex one:/var/cache/spampd# ll total 9636 -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks one:/var/cache/spampd# /etc/init.d/spampd restart Stopping spam checking proxy daemon: spampd . Starting spam checking proxy daemon: spampd. one:/var/cache/spampd# ll total 9640 -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5234688 2007-02-26 02:56 awl -rw------- 1 root root 6 2007-03-07 00:24 awl.mutex -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 18864 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 14364 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes.mutex -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 2510848 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 spampd spampd 5046272 2007-03-07 00:02 bayes_toks one:/var/cache/spampd# I also have the same problem which was reported in #395355, everything else seems to work well. Thanks and best regards, Bernd -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-grsec Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages spampd depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb ii libnet-server-perl 0.94-1 An extensible, general perl server ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii spamassassin 3.1.7-2 Perl-based spam filter using text spampd recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
