[Mimedefang] MD tries to open /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs (was Re: mimedefang-multiplexor and bayes_path)

[Kelson]

Eric DUVAL wrote:
>>     Jan 28 13:56:23 smtp mimedefang-multiplexor[13030]: Slave 3
>>     stderr: config: path "/root/.spamassassin" is inaccessible:
>>     Permission denied
>>
>> Why mimedefang-multiplexor (or mimedefang.pl) don't use bayes_path ?

I don't think bayes_path is related to this at all, as I've got a setup 
that's using Bayes via MySQL, and none of the errors mention bayes.

Since upgrading from MIMEDefang 2.63 to 2.64, I've started seeing the 
following pairs of errors on slave startup:

Jan 28 02:23:29 speed3 mimedefang-multiplexor[7521]: Slave 11 stderr: 
config: path "/root/.spamassassin" is inaccessible: Permission denied
Jan 28 02:23:29 speed3 mimedefang-multiplexor[7521]: Slave 11 stderr: 
config: path "/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs" is inaccessible: 
Permission denied

I don't see anything obvious in the changelog, and it didn't start when 
we upgraded SA to 3.2.4 a week or so earlier.

The error persists even when I explicitly set allow_user_rules to 0 
(which is theoretically the default anyway).  Running spamassassin 
--lint -D as another user suggests why: SA reads the user_prefs file 
*before* it checks to see whether the config allows running any of those 
rules.

Interestingly, if I explicitly set HOME to the defang user's homedir in 
the init script, the messages disappear.  This suggests to me that MD 
used to pick up the environment from the user specified in -U, but 
doesn't anymore.

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>