I've moved from Solaris to Debian and have a new sendmail/spamassassin/milter installation (non-compiled) and I'm getting these permissions errors as well. I keep a .spamassassin in my home directory with a whitelist, userprefs, and bayes files. If I move these to a central location, it's a requirement that user nobody has read and write access or just read?
----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:45:52 PM Subject: Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:06:18PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > howdy folks. > > I've recently abandoned my increasingly unwieldy bogofilter > implementation in favor of spamassassin: I'm no longer the only one > getting mail through this server; and the bogofilter databases were > gradually getting out of whack. > > So aptitude install spamassassin, works like a charm. A couple tweaks > in exim4.conf and its rolling along. But I'm getting these messages in > /var/log/mail.log > > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: connection from bigmomma > [127.0.0.1] at port 41420 > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: setuid to nobody > succeeded > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: creating default_prefs: > /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission > denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: config: cannot write to > /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: failed to create > readable default_prefs: /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission > denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 > Jan 29 10:32:36 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: checking message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for nobody:65534 > Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission > denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1530 > Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: locker: safe_lock: cannot > create tmp lockfile > /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.bigmomma. > 32442 for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file > or directory > Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: auto-whitelist: open of > auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp > lockfile /non > existent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.bigmomma.32442 for > /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or > directory > Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: clean message (0.5/5.0) > for nobody:65534 in 12.8 seconds, 6620 bytes. > Jan 29 10:32:49 bigmomma spamd[32442]: spamd: result: . 0 - > PLING_PLING > scantime=12.8,size=6620,user=nobody,uid=65534,required_score=5.0,rhos > t=bigmomma,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=41420,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,autolearn=no > > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its uid to > 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a problem as it > tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in its $HOME with is > nonexistent. One recommendation I found was to change the user for > spamd from nobody to spamd, and create that user for just this > purpose. This seems fine, but I don't like to migrate too far from > default configs. Any other suggestions? is there something simple I'm > missing here? (probably). is this new user, spamd, the way to go or > should I be tweaking some other conf to make this work. okay solved to my satisfaction: modified /etc/default/spamassassin thus: OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -D -x --virtual-config-dir=/srv/Mail/spamassassin" -x turns off the per-user configs, so its stops trying to create /nonexistent... --virtual-config-dir=... does just that, point spamd to the specified directory for its AWL files and bayes_* files. seems to work for me, though that -D sure puts up lots of nice output :) thanks all A TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
