Re: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-29 Thread jdow
Ah, it's not safe to open the root directory. You should redirect email for root to an unprivileged account. 'Nix systems are not like Windows systems in which you really can't do a blasted thing as a normal user. They are designed so that the only thing you do as root is reconfigure the system.

Re: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:26 PM 1/28/2005, Chris Harvey wrote: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied This is right after all the bayes token statements. It suggests it's a problem, but I don't seem to be able to fix it. My default bayes location is

RE: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Harvey
First, I assume you're using a bayes_path statement to force the bayes DB for all users to be in roots homedir. Yep! If so, DO NOT proceed.. In order for your bayes DB to be wide open, ALL users must have r_x access to /root... that's a bad thing that you don't want to give them.

RE: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Harvey
Ok, now I'm noticing this Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Is there a file path I can set so that the new working directory is my new .spamassasin directory I created? I specifically set the bayes and the