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 -- Mark --------------------------------- Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070817/b0c0988a/attachment-0005.html>