[CentOS] Help in starting spamassassin

[mark pryor]

Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: I have installed spamassassin, per the instructions on Scalix's wiki, 
and it is working, with some important caviats.  So I asked for help on 
the spamassassin user list, and got some, but I think I am butting up 
against some Centos specific issues...

So over at spamassassin list I was told not to let spamassassin run as 
root.  To create a user: spamfilter.  and add -u spamfilter to the start 
command.

So I created the user and group.  I ran the spamassassin --lint and -D 
--lint

Then I went to /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and change the lines:

# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid

to

# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid


And then did:


/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart

and spamassassin is still running as root and I am still getting these  errors....


Robert,

check if you have the directory
/home/spamfilter

and try adding the extra (-u spamfilter) param in
/etc/sysconfig/spamassassin

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Mark

       
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