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Auto-whitelist problem
I can't seem to get auto-whitelist to work. I've run spamd with debugging
and there seems to be a permissions problem:

[root@ns micha]# grep AWL /var/log/maillog | tail -2
Feb 12 15:27:25 ns spamd[22425]: debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open
auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist:
Feb 12 15:28:11 ns spamd[22530]: debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open
auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist:

Here's how I defined auto-whitelist:
[root@ns micha]# grep whitelist /etc/mail/spamassassin/10_local.cf
auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist

And spamd is running as user nobody:
[root@ns micha]# ps aux | grep spamd
nobody 23473 0.0 1.2 36092 6320 ? S Feb11 0:12 /usr/bin/perl
-T -w /usr/bin/spamd -d -x -a -m5 -H -D -u nobody

And here's the perms:

[root@ns micha]# ll /tmp/.spamassassin/
total 1804
-rwx------ 1 nobody nobody 0 Feb 10 12:23 auto-whitelist
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 86016 Feb 12 15:32 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 2535424 Feb 12 15:32 bayes_toks
[root@ns micha]# ll -ad /tmp/.spamassassin/
drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Feb 12 15:39 /tmp/.spamassassin/


Can anyone suggest what I've missed?

TIA
--Micha
Re: Auto-whitelist problem [ In reply to ]
Perhaps you should place this whitelist in /etc or /var.
I am sure that /tmp is wiped at every reboot, which would result in the
loss of your AWL. You should give your spamd user ownership of the AWL.

I hope this helps.


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:43, Micha Silver wrote:

> I can't seem to get auto-whitelist to work. I've run spamd with debugging
> and there seems to be a permissions problem:
>
> [root@ns micha]# grep AWL /var/log/maillog | tail -2
> Feb 12 15:27:25 ns spamd[22425]: debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open
> auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist:
> Feb 12 15:28:11 ns spamd[22530]: debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open
> auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist:
>
> Here's how I defined auto-whitelist:
> [root@ns micha]# grep whitelist /etc/mail/spamassassin/10_local.cf
> auto_whitelist_path /tmp/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist
>
> And spamd is running as user nobody:
> [root@ns micha]# ps aux | grep spamd
> nobody 23473 0.0 1.2 36092 6320 ? S Feb11 0:12 /usr/bin/perl
> -T -w /usr/bin/spamd -d -x -a -m5 -H -D -u nobody
>
> And here's the perms:
>
> [root@ns micha]# ll /tmp/.spamassassin/
> total 1804
> -rwx------ 1 nobody nobody 0 Feb 10 12:23 auto-whitelist
> -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 86016 Feb 12 15:32 bayes_seen
> -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 2535424 Feb 12 15:32 bayes_toks
> [root@ns micha]# ll -ad /tmp/.spamassassin/
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Feb 12 15:39 /tmp/.spamassassin/
>
>
> Can anyone suggest what I've missed?
>
> TIA
> --Micha

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