[Gllug] Continued spamassassin strangeness

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 24 21:01:09 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 20:50, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> > The problem is getting it to do the learning. An examination of my logs
> >
> >shows what the problem seems to be...
> >
> >Dec 24 18:14:54 flare spamd[21384]: cannot write to
> >/root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored
> >
> >
> >But changing the permissions and owner of the file doesn't seem to have
> >made any difference :( So there is clearly a level of sophistication
> >involved here that I haven't yet found.
> >  
> >
> 
> I answered this from your first post on the subect - clearly the user 
> that you're running spamd as does not have permission to write to the db 
> files.  It's a configuaration problem.  Check your log files, check 
> which user spamd is running has, check that user has the right access 
> rights.
> 

But as I gave others r+w that clearly isn't enough. That's the point I
am making. 

> 

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