# Spampd: Bayes DB permission denied

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/spampd-bayes-db-permission-denied/901>\
**Category:** Maintenance\
**Created:** [October 25, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/spampd-bayes-db-permission-denied/901 "2015-10-25T12:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkorves](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@tkorves](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/tkorves)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/spampd-bayes-db-permission-denied/901/1 "2015-10-25T12:06:56Z")

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Hi there,

I’ve found a small, little glitch in relation to folder / file permissions on a standard installation of MIAB 0.13b.

Oct 25 12:35:45 mail spampd[25794]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/user-data/mail/spamassassin/bayes\_\* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied#012  
Oct 25 12:35:45 mail spampd[25794]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/user-data/mail/spamassassin/bayes\_\* R/W: tie failed: Permission denied#012

root@mail:~# ls -lah /home/user-data/mail/spamassassin/  
total 2.6M  
drwxrwx— 2 spampd spampd 4.0K Oct 25 12:56 .  
drwxrwxr-x 7 root www-data 4.0K Oct 22 14:40 …  
-rw-rw---- 1 spampd spampd 640K Oct 25 12:56 bayes\_seen  
-rw------- 1 mail mail 2.3M Oct 25 12:56 bayes\_toks

All the best, Tim

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**Author:** ![JoshData](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/joshdata/32/2153_2.png) [@JoshData](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/JoshData)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/spampd-bayes-db-permission-denied/901/2 "2015-10-25T12:20:23Z")

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Please see:

> <https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/534>
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> I get these errors from time to time. I did not change any permissions on the /home/user-data directory.
> Aug 27 09:41:49 mail...

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**Author:** ![tkorves](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@tkorves](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/tkorves)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/spampd-bayes-db-permission-denied/901/3 "2015-10-27T12:01:17Z")

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Thanks, that did the trick. So easy … 😃