On Monday 09 November 2015 at 16:23:52, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:11:16 +0100 Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > What are the ownership & permissions on:
> >
> > /var/mail/,spamassassin
>
> Tried root.root and debian-spamd.debian.spamd, 755.
What did Jessie install it as?
> > /var/mail/.spamassassin/user_prefs
>
> Not there at all.
Have you tried creating it, to let spamd look in it?
> > and which user does spamassassin run as on your system?
>
> root - which I'm slightly surprised at.
How did you identify this?
> > How is spamassassin being called in order to give its opinion on
> > email?
>
> exim is calling it. The results also appear in syslog.
1. I seriously doubt that on a Debian system exim is running as root.
What do you see in the first column of output from "ps aux | grep exim"?
2. It sounds like we're talking slightly at cross-purposes here. Exim may be
calling spamassassin (PS: how?), but that's not spamd, providing a network
service to other machines.
What do you see in the first column of output from "ps aux | grep spamd"?
Antony.
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