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

[James E. Pratt]

> 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: 

>> David wrote:
>>That's weird.

As another affected user, I will note that I had MD 2.64 installed prior
to updating to SA 3.2.4 - I have had the symptom ever since, but nothing
seems to be affected(?) except the log entries overall that I can tell.

> Kelson wrote:
> 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.

>> David wrote:
> 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.

Well, I hope your not wasting your time, but thank you ... The server
here is rhel4, sa 323/2.64 installed a few months ago, and just put in
production shortly thereafter. After updating to sa 3.2.4 I started
seeing it in the logs and before that it was not there. Sa-lint shows no
issues either?. I may try the workaround above. Let us know what you
find out. Perhaps it's a sendmail/compile or config issue? Hrmm. Anyhow,
If I can be of any more help let me know ;)

Regards,
jamie