successful redhat 8.0 installation, but ...

[Chris Wilkes]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:19:11AM +0000, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> 
> A small part of the installation did not go smoothly, however: the man
> pages were installed in /usr/local/man, whereas RedHat puts its man
> pages in /usr/share/man. I suppose every distribution does it
> differently, and it's therefore difficult if not impossible to handle
> every distribution cleanly. I would suggest, then, mentioning in the
> FAQ that the man pages will be installed in /usr/local/man by default.
> I know the first thing I did after installing was type "man
> bogofilter" -- when nothing came up I assumed that no man pages
> existed and that I should rely on web-based documentation.

Unfortunately that's a bug/feature with autoconf defaulting to
$prefix/man for your man pages.  You can override that with a
"./configure --mandir=/usr/share/man" (at least in theory I haven't
tried that).  Or you can alternatively set your MANPATH to know about
both locations, which should be in /etc/manpath.config or
/etc/man.config.

> Now, a question, please. I created a group bogofilter and added a few
> users to that group. I created goodlist.db and spamlist.db, put them
> in a central place, made the ownership root.bogofilter and the
> permissions 660, and then asked users to create sym-links to these
> files. These users can write to these files, yet I see these lines in
> my procmail log, and the mail is not being delivered:

Hrmm, did you read this somewhere or is it something that you're trying
out?  I ask as everytime I here sym link and database file and many
users I get scared.  There might not be anything wrong with doing it
that way.

I poked around and thought that you could tell BF where the
good|spamlist.db are located via the BOGODIR directory but I don't think
you can, unless you edit the file main.c.  You might want to do that
instead of the symlinks as then the user doesn't have to make a link.

> procmail: Executing "bogofilter,-uepl"
> bogofilter (db) open: /home/powerpull/.bogofilter/goodlist.db: Permission deniedbogofilter: Cannot initialize database good.
> procmail: Error while writing to "bogofilter"
> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
> procmail: Assigning "EXITCODE=75"
> procmail: Assigning "HOST"

Not having used procmail at all I would be suspicious as to what uid and
gid it is running under.  I think you can print out your environment in
a procmail receipe with a "LOG=" directive, might try giving that a
shot.

And as an aside, are other people running single BF files for their
entire mail server?  I would think that one person's spam is another's
ham so this wouldn't work that well.  And plus you might have that one
person that wants to buy toner cartridges!

Chris