On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I found a script that supposedly will sa-learn Cyrus IMAP mailboxes for > spam and ham. The script wants to run the reconstruct command as the > cyrus user, but 'su' seems to have a problem with the way it is setup: > > su - -s /bin/sh cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct spam" > > Aside from the fact that 'su' has a problem with the syntax, if I take > out the offending options of the shell and '-s', it will give me a > directory error, of course, because the port install on my FreeBSD-5.2.1 > box setup the user with nologin and nonexistant home directory: > > esmtp# su - cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct notspam" > su: no directory > > Can someone offer advice on how to get this command the script is trying > to execute working? Maybe I don't need to be using the 'cyrus' user to > do this?
Robert, If you don't use the "-" in "su - " it won't try to find the environment of the account you're specifying (cyrus, in this case), so you don't need to have a home directory. Of course, you need to make sure that the environment where you run that has what you need. I believe that you do need to use the cyrus user, just try it like: su cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct notspam" Good luck. -- andrew caird --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
