Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

[Matthias Andree]

"Dann Daggett" <dann at exposim.com> writes:

> <snip>
>> My environment is postfix+procmail+bogofilter. 
>> My wordlist is in /var/spool/bogofilter and it is shared by all
> users.
> <snip>
>> Here're the permissions for the bogofilter directory and its files:
>> 
>> drwxr-x--x  3 root root     4096 Mar  4 18:27
> /var/spool/bogofilter//
> <snip> 
>> -rw-------  1 root mail  1048564 Mar  4 18:27
> /var/spool/bogofilter/log.0000000216
> <snip> 
>
> Thank you David.
>
> Your permissions would seem to indicate only a process running as root
> would be able to open them (same as mine). Since your wordlist is
> shared by all users that would make sense that the process runs as the
> same owner each time (be that root or not) and that you would not
> encounter the same problem I am.

In your case, _someone_ else than the user is running bogofilter.

> Since I have different wordlists for each user, the process runs as
> each user, and therefore it doesn't have permission to access the
> files. So I think I need a way to tell whatever process is creating
> the log files (be it bogofilter, DB, or logrotate)

The process is bogofilter or bogoutil. Check who calls your processes.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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