Noah wrote:
Hi there list,
I installed the following spamassasin proggies on my FreeBSD machine
and receiving an error "auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock:
cannot create tmp lockfile"
Any clues what I am doing wrong?
# pkg_info | grep Spam
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3 A highly efficient mail filter for
identifying spam
spamass-milter-0.3.1_3 Sendmail Milter (mail filter) plugin for
SpamAssassin
Jan 7 23:25:42 blah spamd[62451]: auto-whitelist: open of
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.blah.domain.com.62451
for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or
directory
My guess is you're using spamd, and spamc is being called as root with
no -u parameter by spamasss-milter.. This tells spamd to scan mail on
behalf of the user root, but for safety, spamd will never do that. So,
it setuid's itself to nobody, which probably has a home directory of
/nonexistent/. (and the user nobody should not have a writable home
directory, so don't try to fix this by giving it one. You'll degrade
your system security if you do)
Alternatively, you're explicitly specifying a user like nobody which has
/nonexistent/ as a home directory. (you can check /etc/passwd to see who
has this home directory).
To fix it, check your spamass-milter config and pass a user id after -u
to spamass-milter that has a real home directory. From what I know of
spamass-milter, it should pass this userid on to spamd.
