hi erik, sorry for the late answer. On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 20:11 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I am sorry if this problem is trivial but being a linux newbie I don't know how to cope with it. I have just noticed the following message in maillog which I haven't seen before: Oct 4 19:55:26 epo spamd[5068]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/erik/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied The databases have gotten the following permission [erik epo .spamassassin]$ ls -l total 9936 -rw------- 1 erik erik 2609152 Oct 4 19:52 auto-whitelist -rw------- 1 root mail 33312 Oct 4 19:11 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 erik erik 5201920 Oct 4 19:11 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 root mail 5480448 Oct 4 19:11 bayes_toks -rw------- 1 erik erik 1216 Sep 23 18:07 user_prefs
Apparently it is the spam daemon which cannot open them but how should the permission bits or owner IDs be change to allow spamd to perform the necessary updates?
hmm... mine looks like this (i don't know if it works though, because i do not use spamassassin and still use my own static filter rules): $:andre\> ls -l total 4285 -rw------- 1 andre users 12288 2005-07-15 16:22 auto-whitelist -rw------- 1 andre users 172032 2005-08-30 14:32 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 andre users 5267456 2005-08-30 14:32 bayes_toks -rw-r--r-- 1 andre users 1175 2005-07-14 23:15 user_prefs you can use "chown", "chgrp" and "chmod" to change the permissions and ownerships. cheers, andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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