[Bug 229128] New: spamassassin fails to create files in /tmp

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           Summary: spamassassin fails to create files in /tmp
           Product: Fedora Core
           Version: fc6
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: normal
         Component: spamassassin
        AssignedTo: wtogami at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: jbayes at cs.oberlin.edu
                CC: fedora-perl-devel-
                    list at redhat.com,felicity at kluge.net,jm at jmason.org,parkerm
                    @pobox.com,reg+redhat at sidney.com,wtogami at redhat.com


The following appears in my spamassassin logfile whenever a mail arrives:

[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314OlxB8Wtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314WBWPZ7tmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314BahtmFtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314uLK3LLtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314GcCsvAtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin23146TyGmitmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314hdTOSmtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314C1oQPLtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314MmXR2dtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314e2CZlltmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314I5i4motmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314xMfhoOtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314Ie5f70tmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314tjeSFxtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314Of9zE8tmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin23145ToCChtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314vjUqeptmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314adUyVrtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin23146yZn6jtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: util: secure_tmpfile failed to create file
'/tmp/.spamassassin2314l1bMPxtmp': Permission denied
[2314] warn: print() on closed filehandle $tmpfile at /usr/bin/spamassassin line
332, <STDIN> chunk 1.
[2314] warn: archive-iterator: unable to open /tmp/.spamassassin2314l1bMPxtmp:
Permission denied
procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>From linden at matrixoz.com.au  Sat Feb 17 09:20:15 2007
 Subject: on earthin
  Folder: mbox.SPOOL							   1719

The message, of course, does not get tagged as spam or ham as it should.

This problem occurs with spamassassin-3.1.8-1.fc6. It did not occur with my
previous version of spamassassin (which I think was 3.1.7something). 

I would be willing to try to isolate this problem further, but I'm not sure what
to do as I don't understand what could possibly keep spamassassin from writing
to /tmp. I have already cleared /tmp and done a fixfiles /tmp and rebooted, but
the problem still occurs. 

spoo:~$ ls -al /tmp
total 72
drwxrwxrwt  8 root   root   4096 Feb 17 09:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root   4096 Feb 17 09:08 ..
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 Feb 17 09:07 .ICE-unix
-r--r--r--  1 root   jbayes   11 Feb 17 09:09 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   jbayes 4096 Feb 17 09:09 .X11-unix
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 Feb 17 09:08 .font-unix
drwx------  2 jbayes jbayes 4096 Feb 17 09:12 flashgot.default.ger
drwx------  3 jbayes jbayes 4096 Feb 17 09:12 gconfd-jbayes
drwx------  2 jbayes jbayes 4096 Feb 17 09:12 orbit-jbayes
spoo:~$

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