Serious Problem - db log file owner

[Petr Danecek]

ok, i see. i will use su for registering the emails. thank you for your
quick response and the explanation!
petr

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
> So
> 
> 1. run bogofilter trainings under the right user's account (check the
>    su(1) command), or put all bogofilter enabled users into a common
>    root and run bogofilter with umask 02 (this requires a somewhat
>    recent bogofilter versions, older would not leave the group write
>    permission bit enabled).
> 
> 2. make sure your system detects bogofilter errors and properly defers
>    the mail - defer the mail if bogofilter exits with code 3 (used to be
>    2 for ancient versions that did not support "unsure" classification)
> 
> > also, i believe that bogofilter should change its behaviour - if the
> > underlying database fails, it should not exit cowardly, but should
> > stream the message instead. 
> 
> It can't. There's always a case when bogofilter cannot make progress and
> exits with a signal or error code. Whenever bogofilter does not exit
> with status 0, 1 or 2, but exits with any other status code, or with a
> signal, you must push the message back to the queue. In many cases, this
> means you "exit 75" from your integration script. See the documentation
> of your MTA for details.
> 
> Hence the exit without output isn't cowardly, but because it cannot make
> progress. Continuing without filtering would make the whole process
> nondeterministic, i. e. irritating, annoying to debug, and unreliable.
> 
> Besides, question like these belong on the bogofilter@ list.
> I'm redirecting replies there.