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

[David F. Skoll]

Kelson wrote:

> 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: 

That's weird.

> 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.

As far as I know, that code has not changed.  We never set HOME based
on the -u user, ever.

I will take a close look at the 2.63->2.64 diffs.

Regards,

David.