On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:57 +1200, Lists wrote:
> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:09 +1200, Kate Kleinschafer wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm trying to run sudo -u postfix spamassassin -D -p
> >>> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -t < MESSAGE.MAI and I would
> >
> > That does not switch the environment. Try something like this...
> >
> > sudo -u postfix env | grep ^USER
> > sudo -u postfix env | grep ^HOME
>
> This gives USER=postfix and HOME=/root
I know. :) That was meant for your enlightenment...
> >> Do you know how I can tell which user is running?
> >> i.e. I have a line
> >> [8357] dbg: config: mkdir /root/.spamassassin failed: mkdir
> > ^^^^^
> > Sic. That's not the postfix user's HOME nor env.
>
> sorry for my ignorance but what does env mean?
Environment.
> also if its not ~/root/.spamassassin folder what folder is it?
Ahem. It should be your postfix user's HOME. Or whatever HOME is set for
the SA scanning process.
> >> /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at
> >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1577
> >>
> >> The permissions on the folder are drw-rw-rw- root:root
Not like that for /root, though. The postfix user does not have write
permissions in root's home. And rightly so...
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