[Gllug] Continued spamassassin strangeness

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Fri Dec 24 23:29:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:55 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> It is running as 'nobody' - I wasn't aware that had an impact on
> permissions, I thought nobody was just another shell-less user. The
> files are now root.nobody but it is still not working :(

If you read the instructions for spamd (README.spamd.gz in the
SpamAssassin documentation) they recommend either running spamd as root
or as a designated non-root user but specifically not as nobody.  This
may be the cause of your problems.

John

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