Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

[Dann Daggett]

>> Finally, I'm still not clear exactly which program is creating new 
>> log.0000000 files in ~/.bogofilter when the current log file reaches 
>> 1MB. Is that the Berkley DB program or bogofilter doing that?
>
>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.

Aha! I think you've found it.

I have a cron job that's probably the culprit.
0-59 * * * * /usr/local/bin/dmd_todo

This is my own C program that processes spam training feedback that come
back in from the user (i.e. dann) and executes bogofilter to update the
wordlist accordingly. It uses a system() call sending the following command:

	/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s
		 -d "/home/dann/.bogofilter"
		 -I "/home/dann/Procmail/103"
   
I set this as a root cron job since it processes many different users spam
training. I am now assuming that if this program's execution of bogofilter
causes the log file to reach 1MB, the new log file created is owned by root!

If this is the case I need to include a bogofilter option so it executes as
the actual user being updated. I found no such option in the man pages
however.

If there is no such bogofilter option, perhaps I should not have this
dmd_todo program run from root's cron, but create a cron job for every user
to run it (but re-code the program to process only one user instead of all
of them).

Or, perhaps you have a better suggestion?

Thank you so much!
Dann

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