Cronjob error

[duceduc]

Hello. I recently installed a mail server on a Ubuntu server. I noticed, however, that I am getting a cron job error sent via email. I don't know how to go about troubleshooting this. I would like to say that I am a novice to Linux.

Cron <amavis@web-server> test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-syn

bayes: cannot open bayes databases /etc/spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied
bayes: expire_old_tokens: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /etc/spamassassin/bayes.lock.web-server.20927 for /etc/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied

[falko]

What's the output of

ls -la /etc/spamassassin/

?

[duceduc]

Since my ubuntu server doesn't have a gui interface and I am using windows as a client pc, I don't know how to copy and paste the list. I took a screenshot instead.

[falko]

You can use an SSH client such as PuTTY to connect to the server. This also allows you to do copy&paste.

What's the output of

grep amavis /etc/passwd

and

grep amavis /etc/group

?

[duceduc]

Thanks for the tip. Here are the outputs.

ls -la /etc/spamassassin/

drwxrwxrwx 4 amavis amavis 4096 2010-08-16 19:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 4096 2010-08-13 16:13 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 939 2010-03-30 00:01 65_debian.cf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 spamd spamd 3264 2010-08-16 19:46 bayes_journal
-rw-rw-rw- 1 amavis amavis 24 2010-08-16 18:18 bayes.mutex
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 172032 2010-08-16 19:46 bayes_seen
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 2629632 2010-08-16 19:46 bayes_toks
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 1299 2010-03-30 00:01 init.pre
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 4549 2010-08-15 23:09 learnspam
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 2335 2010-08-16 11:10 local.cf
drwxrwxrwx 2 spamd amavis 4096 2010-03-30 00:01 sa-update-hooks.d
drwxrwxrwx 2 spamd amavis 4096 2010-08-14 22:59 sa-update-keys
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 2524 2010-03-30 00:01 v310.pre
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 1194 2010-03-30 00:01 v312.pre
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 2416 2010-03-30 00:01 v320.pre
-rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd amavis 1237 2010-03-30 00:01 v330.pre

grep amavis /etc/passwd

amavis:x:112:120:AMaViS system user,,,:/var/lib/amavis:/bin/sh

grep amavis /etc/group

clamav:x:119:amavis
amavis:x:120:clamav

[falko]

That's strange, permissions seem to be ok. Can you add the amavis user to the spamd group? Maybe that helps.

[duceduc]

I gave amavis permission to the folder with these cmd

I gave amavis permission rights to the folder and that seems to help. I haven't got a error yet.

I have an unrelated issue dealing with spam tag. Is it possible to have all emails marked as spam be deleted automatically? Right now I am receiving all marked spam emails sent to inbox. I read we need to edit the amavisd.conf but I don't see it in the amavis dir.

Thanks.

[falko]

You can change this in /etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults.