spamd: still running as root:

[Noah <ad...@enabled.com>]

Hi there,

how do I track down and correct the following error.  I have 
spamassassin install on a FreeBSD machine.

Jan  7 23:29:26 typhoon spamd[62450]: spamd: still running as root: user 
not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody


# pkg_info | grep Spam
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3 A highly efficient mail filter for 
identifying spam
spamass-milter-0.3.1_3 Sendmail Milter (mail filter) plugin for SpamAssassin

Re: spamd: still running as root:

[Duane Hill <d....@yournetplus.com>]

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:31:00 -0800
Noah <ad...@enabled.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> how do I track down and correct the following error.  I have 
> spamassassin install on a FreeBSD machine.
> 
> Jan  7 23:29:26 typhoon spamd[62450]: spamd: still running as root:
> user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back
> to nobody
> 
> 
> # pkg_info | grep Spam
> p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3 A highly efficient mail filter for 
> identifying spam
> spamass-milter-0.3.1_3 Sendmail Milter (mail filter) plugin for
> SpamAssassin

How do you have SA defined in /etc/rc.conf? Here's how I have it set
for our environment:

spamd_enable="YES"
spamd_flags="--username=spamd --groupname=spamd --min-children=8
--max-children=32 --min-spare=16 --max-spare=24 --sql-config
--nouser-config"

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Re: spamd: still running as root:

[Per Jessen <pe...@computer.org>]

Noah wrote:

> how do I track down and correct the following error.  I have
> spamassassin install on a FreeBSD machine.
> 
> Jan  7 23:29:26 typhoon spamd[62450]: spamd: still running as root:
> user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to
> nobody

Find out where spamd is being started, and correct the arguments.  I'm
not familiar with BSD, but on an opensuse machine, you'd look
at /etc/init.d/spamd and /etc/sysconfig/spamd.


/Per Jessen, Zürich