[CentOS] Help in starting spamassassin

[Robert Moskowitz]

mark pryor wrote:
>
>
> */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
OK that worked.  It is now running as user spamfilter, but things are 
still not working.

 2264     root     15:48     /usr/bin/spamd -u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H 
-r /var/run/spamd.pid
      2301     spamfilter     15:48     spamd child
      2302     spamfilter     15:48     spamd child

Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z sendmail[3913]: l7HK0VeM003913: 
from=<1-809368-htt-consult.com?dm at mx121.susanshopping.com>, size=6708, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<1-809368-6vhNLrr-70zbBFrP70h at mx121.susanshopping.com>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: connection from 
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 36972
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: creating default_prefs: 
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission 
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: config: cannot write to 
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: failed to create readable 
default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission 
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: processing message 
<1-809368-6vhNLrr-70zbBFrP70h at mx121.susanshopping.com> for root:502
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission 
denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp 
lockfile 
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for 
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: auto-whitelist: open of 
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp 
lockfile 
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for 
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: identified spam (8.5/5.0) for 
root:502 in 2.6 seconds, 7247 bytes.

And there are no files within /home/spamfilter/.spamassassin