Spamd Failes to Start - Edgy Eft

[Georg Sauthoff]

On 2007-01-15, Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Does anyone out there know how to correct the following error to make 
> spamd install and start ?   Tried Google can't find any answers .....

>  /var/cache/apt/archives/spampd_2.30-11_all.deb

> apt-get -f install 
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/53.5kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> (Reading database ... 291010 files and directories currently 
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace spampd 2.30-11 
> (using .../spampd_2.30-11_all.deb) ...
>  * ERROR: Insufficient privileges. Retry as root

hm, did you execute this command as root? You may check via
# whoami 
before executing apt-get.

Best regards
Georg Sauthoff

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