[rhn-users] SpamAssassin update (RHSA-2007:0492)

[Felix Windt]

Hi,

After reading RHSA-2007:0492 today, we ran a simple "up2date --update" to
update the package.
We then proceeded to restart the service:

$ /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
Stopping spamd: [  OK  ]
Starting spamd: [27376] error: spamd: unable to determine home directory
for user 'spmd'
spamd: unable to determine home directory for user 'spmd'
[FAILED]

Checking the config file, we found:

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
# Options to spamd
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -x -m5 -uspmd -H/home/spamd"

But:

$ grep spam /etc/passwd
spamd:x:52:52::/home/spamd:/sbin/nologin

Editing the config file, changing it to use the existing user:

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
# Options to spamd
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -x -m5 -uspamd -H/home/spamd"

Lead to success:

$ /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
Starting spamd: [  OK  ]
$ ps aux | grep spam | grep -v grep
root 27386 0.1 0.2 114860 38744 ? Ss 12:06 0:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d -x -m5
-uspamd -H/home/spamd -r /var/run/spamd.pid
spamd 27389 0.0 0.2 115388 39276 ? S 12:06 0:00 spamd child
spamd 27390 0.0 0.2 114860 37160 ? S 12:06 0:00 spamd child

The system is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 for AMD64/Intel EM64T)
installation.


Has anyone else been experiencing this?


Thanks,

Felix
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