Sa-learn run as clamav or root

I have been running sa-learn as root. I now believe this is wrong and should be running as clamav
however I get problems running as clamav. I believe I have the correct permissions..
my junk and NotJunk folders are as follows
drwx------ 285 cyrusima mail 9690 May 14 12:50 junkmail
drwx------ 6 cyrusima mail 204 May 14 11:08 notjunkmail
I get the following errors:
sudo -u clamav sa-learn --spam /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail
bayes expireoldtokens: lock: 5428 cannot create tmp lockfile /private/var/root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.fileserver.onestep.co.uk.5428 for /private/var/root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied
Unable to open /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail: Permission denied
Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined).
or
fileserver:/var/spool/imap/user root# su - clamav
[fileserver:~] clamav% sa-learn --spam /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail
Unable to open /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail: Permission denied
Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined).
Also how can I tell that the sa-learn script has run automatically at night?
when I run
su - clamav -c "sa-learn --dump magic"
I get
0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version
0.000 0 205 0 non-token data: nspam
0.000 0 13929 0 non-token data: nham
0.000 0 156732 0 non-token data: ntokens
0.000 0 1178593410 0 non-token data: oldest atime
0.000 0 1179144505 0 non-token data: newest atime
0.000 0 1179144088 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime
0.000 0 1179140819 0 non-token data: last expiry atime
0.000 0 345600 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta
0.000 0 253032 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count
Xserve Mac OS X (10.4.8) Intel and PPC systems
TIA

You are much better off getting spamtrainer and let it do this for you.
However, for general education purposes read on
I have been running sa-learn as root. I now believe
this is wrong and should be running as clamav
You must run it as user clamav
however I get problems running as clamav. I believe I
have the correct permissions..
my junk and NotJunk folders are as follows
drwx------ 285 cyrusima mail 9690 May 14
12:50 junkmail
drwx------ 6 cyrusima mail 204 May 14
11:08 notjunkmail
I get the following errors:
sudo -u clamav sa-learn --spam
/var/spool/imap/user/junkmail
bayes expireoldtokens: lock: 5428 cannot create tmp
lockfile
/private/var/root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.fileserver.
onestep.co.uk.5428 for
/private/var/root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock:
Permission denied
Unable to open /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail:
Permission denied
Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined).
or
fileserver:/var/spool/imap/user root# su - clamav
[fileserver:~] clamav% sa-learn --spam
/var/spool/imap/user/junkmail
Unable to open /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail:
Permission denied
Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined).
This is because the user's mailboxes are owned by root.
To work around this do the follwing as root:
cat /var/spool/imap/user/junkmail/messagefilenumber. | su - clamav -c "sa-learn --spam
Also how can I tell that the sa-learn script has run
automatically at night?
when I run
su - clamav -c "sa-learn --dump magic"
I get
0.000 0 3 0 non-token
data: bayes db version
0.000 0 205 0 non-token
data: nspam
0.000 0 13929 0 non-token
data: nham
0.000 0 156732 0 non-token
data: ntokens
0.000 0 1178593410 0 non-token
data: oldest atime
0.000 0 1179144505 0 non-token
data: newest atime
0.000 0 1179144088 0 non-token
data: last journal sync atime
0.000 0 1179140819 0 non-token
data: last expiry atime
0.000 0 345600 0 non-token
data: last expire atime delta
0.000 0 253032 0 non-token
This tells you what the bayes db has beend fed with so far. Whether this happend automatically or manually is a different issue.
sa-learn will not run automatically unless you told it to by means of a startup item, cron job, .... If you did you should know which logs to check.

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