[Gllug] Continued spamassassin strangeness
Adrian McMenamin
adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 24 22:55:51 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:51, John Winters wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 21:01 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 20:50, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Is it possible spamd is running as nobody? That would explain the
> failure to write even after the permission changes.
>
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 :(
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