I have installed spamassassin, per the instructions on Scalix's wiki,
and it is working, with some important caviats. So I asked for help on
the spamassassin user list, and got some, but I think I am butting up
against some Centos specific issues...
This is what I am seeing in the maillog:
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z sendmail[13082]: l7HIdvGf013082: Milter add:
header: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 (2007-02-13)
on\n\tz9m9z.htt-consult.com
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: spamd: connection from
localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 40454
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: spamd: still running as root: user
not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
at /usr/bin/spamd line 1161, <GEN10> line 4.
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: spamd: processing message
<461628246.59720704082024@xxxxxxxxxx> for root:99
and:
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin:
Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.13032 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
Aug 17 14:39:59 z9m9z spamd[13032]: auto-whitelist: open of
auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp
lockfile
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.13032 for
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
So over at spamassassin list I was told not to let spamassassin run as
root. To create a user: spamfilter. and add -u spamfilter to the start
command.
So I created the user and group. I ran the spamassassin --lint and -D
--lint
Then I went to /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and change the lines:
# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
to
# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
And then did:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart
and spamassassin is still running as root and I am still getting these
errors....
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