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FS#47676 - [spampd] Update spampd user home and PID file location

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Wilhelm Schuster (wlhlm) - Saturday, 09 January 2016, 00:32 GMT
Last edited by Florian Pritz (bluewind) - Saturday, 09 January 2016, 17:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Florian Pritz (bluewind)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
spampd is run under its own user "spampd", which has its home directory set to /home. Please consider changing it to /var/lib, or don't set it at all (like /var/null), since it is only used to store the PID file, which I think should be placed in /run (like many other daemons do).

Additional info:
spampd 2.30-10
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Closed by  Florian Pritz (bluewind)
Saturday, 09 January 2016, 17:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Wilhelm Schuster (wlhlm) - Saturday, 09 January 2016, 02:07 GMT
"or don't set it at all (like /var/null), since it is only used to store the PID file,"

Ok, please ignore that. I just realized that spamassassin also saves its data in the user home directory. But I still think that /var/lib is more appropriate here.
Comment by Florian Pritz (bluewind) - Saturday, 09 January 2016, 16:50 GMT
While it does make sense to move this to /var/lib/spampd, moving an existing home dir is not trivial and will therefore not be done. I am fine with moving the pid file to /run and changing the default home dir location though.

Are you happy with spampd 2.30-11?
Comment by Wilhelm Schuster (wlhlm) - Saturday, 09 January 2016, 17:09 GMT
I'm happy :)

Thanks for the quick fix!

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