[Gllug] Continued spamassassin strangeness

[Martin A. Brooks]

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.



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