Cronjob error

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.

Code:

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

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

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /etc/spamassassin/

?

 

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.

 

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

Code:

grep amavis /etc/passwd

and

Code:

grep amavis /etc/group

?

 

Thanks for the tip. Here are the outputs.

ls -la /etc/spamassassin/

grep amavis /etc/passwd

grep amavis /etc/group

 

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

 

I gave amavis permission to the folder with these cmd

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.

 

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