[Mimedefang] AWL and local.cf - cannot create lockfile

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Gary Funck wrote:

> Both /var/spool/MD-Quarantine and /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/.spamassassin
> are owned by the "defang" user.  So is the autowhitelist DB.
> But the pid file is owned by root:
>
> $ ls -l /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/.spamassassin
> -rw------- 1 defang defang 12288 Apr  5 13:41 auto-whitelist
> -rw------- 1 root   root       6 Apr  5 14:14 auto-whitelist.mutex

is it possible that you run a cron job for maintainance and this is a 
left-over file?

Or do you run spamassassin for different purposes as well? maybe the 
server?

> /var/spool/MD-Quarantine.  On this mail server, we don't
> want to run AWL under mimedefang any way, so I'd like some
> tips on how to do that.

Disable AWL settings in your settings, maybe the global ones in 
/etc/spamassassin/*.pre

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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