problem with spamassassin...

huliganaz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 80

I'm running exim4+clam+spamassassin+courier-imap everything works fine but i always see an error in my /var/log/messages
it looks like this :
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: info: setuid to nobody succeeded
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: Creating default_prefs [//.spamassassin/user_prefs]
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: Cannot write to //.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file o
r directory
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: Couldn't create readable default_prefs for [//.spamassassi
n/user_prefs]
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: checking message <000801c481f8$d5335480$6301a8c0@lt> for n
obody:65534.
Aug 14 15:24:32 hoolinux spamd[23052]: clean message (0.1/5.0) for nobody:65534 in 0.1 seconds, 1
370 bytes.

it looks like it checks my messages but i'm not sure .. any comments?
sorry for my english ...
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1337 newb!

Z? · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject:

The user 'nobody' has it's home directory set to /, but doesn't have permission to write there.

If you're using spamd, edit /etc/conf.d/spamd, and add