Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

[David Relson]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:18:31 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

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

...[snip]......

> bogofilter links against the Berkeley DB library, so Berkeley DB does
> everything on behalf and account of bogofilter. This means, unless there
> were a serious kernel bug, some root process must also be running
> bogofilter because your .procmailrc* bogofilter cannot possibly cause
> root-owned files to be generated, Linux doesn't support file giveaways
> in default settings either.
> 
> Do you have any system-wide cron jobs? Check /etc/cron*, /var/spool/cron/tabs.

Do you have an /etc/procmailrc file?  Procmail gives it precedence over
~/.procmailrc and processes it using root privilege.

David

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