Typically we do something like this basic outline login to non-root account and change to proper directory
wget http://www.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.g z rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.gz su to root and change to proper directory yum localinstall perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm spamassassin-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm then when done we run sa-update script and check log files for problems - rh