On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 09:27 -0800, Ajay Sharma wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > How do I get this set up? > > > > spamassassin -D --lint > > > > shows me an error... > > > > debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB > > R/O: /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks > > > > and with no db present, it doesn't learn. > > > > Is there something simple that I'm missing? > > Just a shot in the dark, does the directory, "/root/.spamassassin/" > exist? And if so, is it writable? ---- # ls -ld /root/.spamassassin/ drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:04 /root/.spamassassin/ # ls -l /root/.spamassassin/ total 12 -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Mar 31 10:04 auto-whitelist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1165 Mar 25 17:55 user_prefs yes and yes - spamassassin is running as root (not sure of the wisdom of that but I haven't changed it)... # ps aux|grep spam root 20711 0.0 0.0 26672 132 ? S Mar25 0:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H root 20714 0.0 0.0 26672 132 ? S Mar25 0:00 spamd child root 20715 0.0 0.0 26672 132 ? S Mar25 0:00 spamd child root 20716 0.0 0.0 26672 136 ? S Mar25 0:00 spamd child root 20717 0.0 0.0 26672 156 ? S Mar25 0:00 spamd child root 20718 0.0 0.0 26672 168 ? S Mar25 0:00 spamd child root 32312 0.0 0.0 3856 576 pts/0 S 10:32 0:00 grep spam Craig