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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Johann Spies <js...@sun.ac.za> on 2005/05/10 12:39:28 UTC
The owner of the spamd-process
If you look at the following output of "top" you will see that some
spamd processes runs under the ownership of "spamd" and others under
"root". I would like to know why?
16930 root 9 0 37908 37M 16548 S 18.7 0.9 0:10 spamd
16927 root 11 0 83720 81M 16296 S 10.7 2.1 0:28 spamd
16929 spamd 10 0 74332 72M 16404 S 6.7 1.9 0:22 spamd
16931 spamd 9 0 38288 37M 16540 S 4.9 0.9 0:07 spamd
16928 spamd 9 0 42340 41M 16364 S 3.5 1.0 0:13 spamd
I have in /etc/init.d/spamassassin:
NAME=spamd
SNAME=spamassassin
DESC="SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon"
PIDFILE="/var/run/$NAME.pid"
PNAME="spamd"
Regards
Johann
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Re: The owner of the spamd-process
Posted by Mike Jackson <mj...@barking-dog.net>.
> If you look at the following output of "top" you will see that some
> spamd processes runs under the ownership of "spamd" and others under
> "root". I would like to know why?
>
> 16930 root 9 0 37908 37M 16548 S 18.7 0.9 0:10 spamd
> 16927 root 11 0 83720 81M 16296 S 10.7 2.1 0:28 spamd
> 16929 spamd 10 0 74332 72M 16404 S 6.7 1.9 0:22 spamd
> 16931 spamd 9 0 38288 37M 16540 S 4.9 0.9 0:07 spamd
> 16928 spamd 9 0 42340 41M 16364 S 3.5 1.0 0:13 spamd
>
>
> I have in /etc/init.d/spamassassin:
>
> NAME=spamd
> SNAME=spamassassin
> DESC="SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon"
> PIDFILE="/var/run/$NAME.pid"
> PNAME="spamd"
There was a thread on the mailing list about that a couple weeks ago, but it
was in relation to *BSD, not Linux. On my FreeBSD systems, the patch that
was supplied for 3.0.2 fixed it, and it was fixed natively for 3.0.3.