[arch-general] spamd "config: cannot create user preferences file"

[David Benfell]

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Hi all,

Casting about on the web, I gather this is an ownership/permissions
issue. That'd be fine and I might know what to do about it if I knew
where spamd was trying to create it and, for that matter, under what user.

But I don't even know where the configuration is (assuming there is one).

It looks to me like it is running as root:

munich# ps aux | grep spam
root      4221  0.2  2.6 168548 80532 ?        S    15:16   0:20 spamd
child
root     15711  0.0  2.2 156172 68244 ?        S    05:20   0:03 spamd
child
root     17327  0.0  0.0  14340  1100 pts/1    S+   18:07   0:00 grep spam
root     18855  0.0  1.8 145704 58072 ?        Ss   Apr03   0:22
/usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamd -d --pidfile /var/run/spamd.pid -c

But otherwise, the systemd service file and the /etc/conf.d/spamd file
aren't telling me much.

The normally excellent Arch Wiki that I'm still learning to remember
to look at doesn't seem to have an entry for spamassassin. Any ideas?

Thanks!
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