Is spamassassassin using the correct bayes data?

dagservice

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Good morning,

I used the instructions over here to create a script to train spamassassin every once in a while. However, i noticed that the training doesn't appear to be very effective.

On further investigation, i noticed that i am running the script as the user running the domain generating the training data (admin in my case, as per the instructions
Log into DirectAdmin as username and go to the cronjobs section.
), which makes the (default) path used for trainging data /home/admin/.spamassassin/bayes. However, since spamassassin appears to be running as root:
Code:
root@vps1:/# ps -Af | grep spam
root     14360     1  0 06:32 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/spamd --pidfile /var/run/spamd.pid -d -c -m 15 -s /var/log/exim/spamd.log --ipv4
root     14389 14360  0 06:32 ?        00:00:11 spamd child
root     14391 14360  0 06:32 ?        00:00:00 spamd child
root     28152  1238  0 11:53 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto spam
Doesn't that mean that spamassassin will be looking for training data in /root/.spamassassin/bayes ?

If so, what is the recommended way of doing this? Running the cron job as root?
 
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