Are you running as the correct user? (Tripwire,Spamassassin)

[sebby]

Hello all-

This morning after months without apparent/signficant changes to my box setup, I got the following error messages in my cron daily report:

SpamAssassin

RulesDuJour Run Summary on server2.meridium.ca:

***NOTICE***: Cannot write to /etc/mail/spamassassin.  Are you running as the correct user?  No rulesets will be checked or updated.

***NOTICE***: Cannot write to /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour.  Are you running as the correct user?  No rulesets will be checked or updated.

Tripwire

### Error: File could not be opened.
### Filename: /var/lib/tripwire/nameofmyserver.com.twd
### Filename: twtempXXXXXX
### Solution: Check existence/permissions for directory specified by ### TEMPDIRECTORY in config file ### Exiting...

Any idea on what is causing this problem?

Sebastien

[ramprage]

For tripwire - /var/lib/tripwire/servername --- check if that file exists an the ownership and permissions on it.

[sebby]

Hello ramprage,

The file do exist, is owned by root and permission = 644...

seb