RE: [vps-mail] Bayes --force-expire problem

["Jim Smith" <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I ran it and it works well. Thanks Scott!

Jim Smith 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Wiersdorf
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:52 PM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Bayes --force-expire problem
> 
> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 10:38:55PM -0400, Jim Smith wrote:
> > Scott,
> > I tried your script but without success. I understand to run su to 
> > change the privileges. However, when it runs "sa-learn 
> --force-expire" 
> > it still tries to force-expire the /root/.spamassassin/ 
> files instead 
> > of the /home/$USER/.spamassassin/ files. It errors out with 
> a "Permission denied"
> > message. Even when I cd to the correct directory, it still tries to 
> > expire the root SA files. Any suggestions?
> 
> Hm. sounds like sa-learn uses the $HOME environment variable 
> instead of doing a getpwuid() call. Bad sa-learn. Here's 
> something a little more robust in Perl that you can run as root:
> 
> perl -e 'for $user (@ARGV) { $>=getpwnam($user) or next; 
> $ENV{HOME} = (getpwuid($>))[7]; 
> system(q#/usr/local/bin/sa-learn --force-expire#); $>=$< }' 
> joe bob sally
> 
> That's all one line, btw--be sure to unwrap it if your mailer 
> mangles it. Here's what it does. For each user listed on the 
> command line:
> 
>   - drop privileges to that user
>   - set the HOME environment variable for that user
>   - run sa-learn (under that user's UID)
>   - become root again and try the next user
> 
> You could stick it in a file if this is something you want to 
> run from time to time (e.g. from a cron):
> 
> <snip>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> ## root should run this as "sa-learn-all user1 user2 user3"
> for $user (@ARGV) {
>     $> = getpwnam($user) or next;
>     $ENV{HOME} = (getpwuid($>))[7];
>     system(q#/usr/local/bin/sa-learn --force-expire#);
>     $>=$<;
> }
> </snip>
> 
> Save it to a file and call it something like "sa-learn-all". 
> Be sure to make it executable (chmod 755 
> /path/to/sa-learn-all).  Then run it like this from cron:
> 
>   23 5 * * * /path/to/sa-learn-all joe bob sally
> 
> Scott
> --
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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