What is this spamd message trying to tell me???

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> I am seeing the message
> 
>     deneb spamd[2859]: prefork: child states: II

I'm not sure, it is in my logs too....  I put a filter for it in my
logcheck ignore file.

> and
> 
>    deneb spamd[2976]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: 
> auto-whitelist:     cannot open auto_whitelist_path 
> /home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate  ioctl for device
> 
> in the second case, the file /home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist exists, 
> and is
> writable by everyone (666) and owned by me user/group.  [ it was 644 but I 
> though
> 666 might help, id didnt]

It should be 600  I found that I had an auto-whitelist from an older
version of SpamAssassin that was 666, I just changed its name, and
SpamAssassin created a new one with the right permissions.  Problem
solved, and auto-whitelist is relearning from scratch.

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