On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:53, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:36:17PM -0500, John Thompson wrote: > > Not on my FreeBSD machine: > > I don't think it's Fedora specific -- it's in the spamd man page, and it > doesn't look like there's any special patches to that effect in the package. > > > Oct 18 21:27:30 amayatra spamd[51657]: info: setuid to root succeeded > > Oct 18 21:27:30 amayatra spamd[51657]: Still running as root: user not > > specified with -u, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. > > ~ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I had that problem on gentoo during setup, You need to configure the OPT flags for spamasssin. cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin # Options to spamd # -d = daemonize it # -c = create user preference files (this is usually in $HOME/.spamassassin) # -a = Use Auto Whitelist # -m5 = Allow maximum # of children # -u = Drop priviledges and run as this user # -x = Disable user config files. (This way, spamd won't complain about permission issues) SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -u spamd -x -L" Note the "-u" -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:36:41 up 2:12, 8 users, load average: 1.23, 1.31, 1.33
