OK, I changed the path in local.cf to /home/spam-filter/bayes/bayes
The owner of the dir is root, and the directory mode is 775. The spamd daemon runs as root I ran spamassassin -D --lint and it still pulled the bayes db to be /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks & /root/ --Will > Will Nordmeyer wrote on Fri, 19 May 2006 06:10:29 -0400: > > > use_bayes 1 > > > > bayes_file_mode 0777 > > > > bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes > > > > > > > > Here's the directory. > > > > drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 1024 May 19 06:07 bayes > > You *do* have a home dir for your spamd as you told in your other posting. > So, use that! /etc/mail is usually somewhat permission-restricted or your > sendmail will complain, also /etc is not intended to hold such data. Move > the directory to your spamd homedir, set filemode to 0666, change owner > and group to match spamd, there is no need to have 777 for the bayes > directory. Again, test with spamassassin -D --lint. > > Kai > > -- > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > > >