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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:09:41
Message-Id: 1127783038.28833.16.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train? by Holly Bostick
1 On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:27 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
2 > Ow Mun Heng schreef:
3 > > I've got a bunch of ham and spam in my mailbox (mbox format) and I
4 > > just want to use it to train it. How do I go about doing that? I've
5 > > tried dspam_sa_trainer but it keeps complaining of errors. (Can't
6 > > write to the /var/amavis/.dspam/ directory, even though I run it as
7 > > root!!)
8 > >
9 > Stupid question(s) (forgive me, but the "obvious" has to be eliminated):
10
11 No.. My mistake for not putting it clearer.
12 >
13 > 1) does the directory /var/amavis/.dspam exist? With write permissions
14 > for the owner and/or root? I've gotta say, a hidden directory in /var/ seems
15 > *awful* weird (and pointless).
16
17 #ls -ld /var/amavis/
18 drwxr-x--- 7 amavis amavis 4096 Sep 26 15:05 /var/amavis
19 #ls -ld /var/amavis/.dspam
20 drwxr-x--- 2 amavis root 4096 Sep 26 15:05 .dspam
21
22
23 >
24 > 2) (because the idea of a dotdir in /var seems so weird...) Does dspam
25 > have a config file where this target is set? Have you tried changing
26 > this target to someplace you can write to (as root)?
27
28 Nope.
29
30 Ah.. Now I see the problem.. hehe.. root does not have write
31 permission!! What a "Homer".
32
33 You've been a great help. I was just having one of those days.
34
35 (and they say root has all power! Well, obviously not enough over the
36 user named stupid haha!!)
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Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train? Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>