Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

[Dann Daggett]

> > 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.
> 
> No need. Either of these options should work:
> 
> - some cron programs have the option of running their children under
a
>   particular user account; on SuSE, /etc/crontab has a 6th column
for the
>   user ID. Your cron may not offer this option.
> 
> - su(1), with GNU coreutils (or predecessors), something like the
>   following might work, the trailing "dann" is the user account to
use,
>   and you may perhaps need to retry su -l -c ... (with -l, that's
minus
>   and ell) added, see "info coreutils 'su invocation'" for details.
> 
>   su -c '/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s -d "/home/dann/.bogofilter" 
>     -I "/home/dann/Procmail/103"' dann
> 
> - some run_as program. I am attaching my own variant,
>   just prefix "run_as dann " to your cron job, without the quotes,
and
>   giving the program name (bogofilter) with full path, as you
already
>   do, run_as does not search $PATH. run_as expects to be run by
root. As
>   you already have bogofilter, allow me to refer you to the GNU
General
>   Public License that shipped with bogofilter in the COPYING file.
> 
>   Compile with gcc -Os -s -o run_as run_as.c
>   (use -O rather than -Os if your compiler complains about -Os)

Thank you so much Matthias! That's exactly what I needed. This has
been very educational for me as well. I sure appreciate your help (and
you too David!) in this matter. I think we can consider this one
solved :)

Cheers!
Dann

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