spamass.sock unsafe 0.1.3

[Robert Wagner]

I am working on Redhat 9.  It seems to work when I run:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamass-milter start
manually as root.  I have tried adding this command to rc.local, but it
doesn't start + no messages in syslog.  Other programs like snort start fine
from rc.local.  I even tried:
su - root -c "/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamass-milter start"
in rc.local, but that didn't work.
Any ideas?

I noticed that /var/lock/subsys is owned by root.root
when trying to start with a non-privileged user I get:
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/spamass-milter': Permission denied

Does this file need to go here?


After Reboot:
Apr 30 08:28:43 myserver sendmail: WARNING: Xspamassassin: local socket name
/var/run/spamass.sock missing 
Apr 30 08:28:43 myserver sendmail: WARNING: Xspamassassin: local socket name
/var/run/spamass.sock missing 

Later
Apr 30 08:53:21 myserver sendmail[2079]: h3UDN6DK002079: Milter
(spamassassin): local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe 
Apr 30 08:53:21 myserver sendmail[2079]: h3UDN6DK002079: Milter
(spamassassin): to error state 


When spamass-milter is started manually by root:
Apr 30 08:09:23 myserver spamd[3218]: Still running as root: user not
specified with -u, not found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.  
Apr 30 08:09:23 myserver spamd[3218]: processing message (unknown) for
root:99.  
Apr 30 08:09:23 myserver spamd[3218]: identified spam (8.0/5.0) for root:99
in 1.0 seconds, 4277 bytes.  
Apr 30 08:09:23 myserver sendmail[3215]: h3UCd8vV003215: Milter add: header:
X-Spam-Flag: YES 
Apr 30 08:09:23 myserver sendmail[3215]: h3UCd8vV003215: Milter add: header:
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=8.0
required=5.0\n\ttests=CLICK_BELOW,DATE_MISSING,EARN_MONEY,EXCUSE_15,GET_PAID
,\n\t      HTML_30_40,HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_WEB_BUGS,\n\t
X_LOOP\n\tversion=2.53