On 2026-08-10 15:54:26 (-0500), David C Rankin wrote: > When I saw you were the culprit, I knew it was in good hands. I do use the > spamassassin-update.timer provided in the wiki, and have had no issues with > it. Occasionally I do run update/compile manually if I see something odd in > pacman update output or in the journal -- more as a check and confirm.
Thanks for the kind words!
When changing things, sometimes there are unintended bugs.
If you still use custom systemd units (spamassassin-update.{service,timer}), you
can replace them with those in the package now.
> On the issue of doing `chown -R spamd: /var/lib/spamassassin` to change
> all the ownership from root to spamd, is there any problem or reason not to
> do that? That was just my "do what pacman wanted" solution, but I don't know
> if it could have unwanted side-effects (I don't think so, and so far it
> hasn't, but I'm no expert on what spamassassin does behind the scenes)
That was a totally fine approach (would have just been better if it hadn't been
necessary ;-) )!
It's also what the tmpfiles.d integration should be doing (properly) now! :)
> Thanks for your maintenance of the package and you reply.
I use the package myself, but actually don't maintain it (Caleb does).
I only realized I had been applying workarounds for an unprivileged workflow for
a long time and fixed it for the package.
Best,
David
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