Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-19 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:06:27PM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: SpamAssassin tools in general default to creating bayes and AWL directories relative to the current user's homedir. I think this is a bug in SpamAssassin 3.1.0, because it didn't

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:15:27 -0500: Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating myself half to death for at least a week on this. There is a readme, there's man spamd, there's http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SpamdReadme?highli

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Anthony Peacock
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Matt Kettler wrote: Brian Kendig wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:55, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:15:27 -0500: Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating myself half to death for at least a week on this. There is a readme, there's man spamd, there's

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Brian Kendig
Just for the record, in case it helps anyone else - I found a workaround to my problem. The problem is that spamd 3.1.0 insists on trying to create per-user config files in its user's home directory, even when I tell it not to, and this causes errors if its user has no home directory. I

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:49, Brian Kendig wrote: Just for the record, in case it helps anyone else - I found a workaround to my problem. The problem is that spamd 3.1.0 insists on trying to create per-user config files in its user's home directory, even when I tell it not to, and this causes

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Kendig
I'm still not able to figure this out. I can find no reason why SpamAssassin should be trying to create files in anybody's home directory, but I'm still seeing this error logged every time spamd processes a message: spamd: mkdir /dev/null: File exists at ///Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so that it shouldn't try to create a Bayes database. I have no idea why it keeps complaining about not being able to create a

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Kendig
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so that it shouldn't try to create a Bayes database. I have no idea why it

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
Brian Kendig wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so that it shouldn't try to create a Bayes database. I have

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: User nobody's home directory is /dev/null. Why is spamd 3.1.0 is trying to create anything there, and how do I prevent it from trying to do so? it is probably trying to create ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. Not sure how to make spamd not

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Kendig
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: SpamAssassin tools in general default to creating bayes and AWL directories relative to the current user's homedir. I think this is a bug in SpamAssassin 3.1.0, because it didn't try to create these directories in 3.0.4, and nothing I do in

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Matt Kettler wrote: Brian Kendig wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so that

mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-14 Thread Brian Kendig
I'm running Exim 4.60 on Mac OS X, and calling SpamAssassin automatically through SA-Exim (which makes Exim pass mail thru spamd). SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was running fine, but when I upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (by downloading and compiling the source, after using CPAN to update all the

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:39:16PM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote: Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: mkdir /dev/null: File exists at /// Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1467 Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-14 Thread Brian Kendig
On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:39:16PM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote: Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: mkdir /dev/null: File exists at /// Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1467 Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: locker: safe_lock: cannot

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-14 Thread Brian Kendig
Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: mkdir /dev/null: File exists at /// Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1467 Dec 14 13:27:46 www spamd[3654]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile /dev/null/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.mutex: Not a directory