Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 March 2005 21:20, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 28 March 2005 20:26, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >>>bayes_file_mode >> >> I had that set for 0770, but the man pages says 0700 and a chmod >> +x, so thats what it is now. We'll see how that works. >> >> You'll

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-29 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 20:26, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: bayes_file_mode I had that set for 0770, but the man pages says 0700 and a chmod +x, so thats what it is now. We'll see how that works. You'll recall from my first message that this is the file that disappeared on me

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 March 2005 20:26, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >bayes_file_mode I had that set for 0770, but the man pages says 0700 and a chmod +x, so thats what it is now. We'll see how that works. You'll recall from my first message that this is the file that disappeared on me & started this whol

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-29 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 15:01, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Gene doesn't even need to do that. Just create another user, such as 'rootsa' and call spamc with the option '-u rootsa'. Or, if you'd like a more generic or global SA bayes database/etc, something like 'spamd' would be

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 March 2005 15:01, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >Steve Prior wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> The point being that under those conditions, root doesn't have >>> any filtering. So, I located that section of code in >>> /usr/bin/spamd, and commented it out. I believe its now working. >>>

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-28 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Steve Prior wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The point being that under those conditions, root doesn't have any filtering. So, I located that section of code in /usr/bin/spamd, and commented it out. I believe its now working. Locking root out of using a valuable tool just to try and convince that u

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Prior
Gene Heskett wrote: The point being that under those conditions, root doesn't have any filtering. So, I located that section of code in /usr/bin/spamd, and commented it out. I believe its now working. Locking root out of using a valuable tool just to try and convince that user not to run as

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:36, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a >> security risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. >> Should be in something like /var/filter/.spamassa

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:36, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a >> security risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. >> Should be in something like /var/filter/.spamassa

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a > security risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. > Should be in something like /var/filter/.spamassassin (filter > being the name of the user) > >You need t

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a > security risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. > Should be in something like /var/filter/.spamassassin (filter > being the name of the user) There is AT

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-24 Thread gallen
SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a security risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. Should be in something like /var/filter/.spamassassin (filter being the name of the user) You need to have a user such as 'filter' run it. Here is a fairly good write

Re: New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:18, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > Repost with some editing. >I did have SA-2.64 installed and was using it with kmail from the >kde-3.3.0 install, heavily hacked FC2 system, present kernel >2.6.12-rc1-mm1. > >This had generated a series of files in /root/.spamassa

New SA-3.0.2 partially barfs.

2005-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I did have SA-2.64 installed and was using it with kmail from the kde-3.3.0 install, heavily hacked FC2 system, present kernel 2.6.12-rc1-mm1. This had generated a series of files in /root/.spamassassin including a bayes_journal, which after about a years running, was only expanded