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 errors if its user has no home directory. I >logged this as bug 4739. > >The workaround is to add "--virtual-config-dir=/tmp" to the spamd >command line. This tells it to put any per-user files into /tmp. It >doesn't actually create any files there - which is correct, because I >disabled anything that would have made it create files - but the mere >fact that this directory exists is enough to avoid the "mkdir /dev/ >null: File exists" errors I had been getting. > > - B
This would appear to have shut some other squawks about user_prefs off too. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
