Dan.McDonald at austinenergy
Oct 29, 2009, 5:48 AM
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:52 -0400, Adam Katz wrote:
> McDonald, Dan wrote:
> > I run sa-update and sa-compile from a cron job at a regular interval.
> >
> > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys'
> > [8641] info: generic: base extraction starting. this can take a while...
> > [8641] info: generic: extracting from rules of type body_0
> >
> > It looks like there is a temp directory with stuff in it left over from
> > the attempt.
> >
> > The logs have nothing useful, just the call in /var/log/cron/info
> > Nothing in warnings or errors
> > Oct 27 14:35:00 ca CROND[8627]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/sa-update-cron)
> >
> > When I run it by hand, I never have encountered this problem.
>
> It appears you're running it as the wrong user via cron and the
> correct user by hand. Who owns that leftover stuff in the temp
> directory? Who owns /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys? They
> should be the same, and the sa-update-keys directory should be
> rwx------ for that user (and maybe also owned by that user's primary
> group).
No, that does not appear to be the issue. The sa-compile script will
complete 6 times out of 7, just random failures with no logs. The rest
of the time it works fine.
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
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