R. Scott Baer wrote: <snip> >> > Bowie, > Thanks for your reply... I made the modification, though I'm still > getting the same errors in my log file.
Wait a second... Going back to your first post, the messages you were complaining about were: Oct 6 08:57:57 localhost spamd[3014]: Creating default_prefs /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Oct 6 08:57:57 localhost spamd[3014]: Cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied This has *NOTHING* to do with bayes. Nothing at all! This has to do with the fact that you started spamd with the -c option. If you don't want spamd to create user_prefs files auto-magically, drop this command-line option. In general, it looks like "nobody" has a home directory that points to /root/. When spamd setuid's to nobody (because you specified -u nobody), it has no privileges to create the user_prefs file in root's home directory. Really, I would strongly suggest creating a "spamd" user, and give it a home directory, if you want to use user_prefs file. Whatever you do, do NOT give "nobody" privileges to write to root's home directory. You will severely degrade the security of your system if you do.
