FW: [Spambayes] Installing SpamBayes for all local users on Win2k

[Samer Ibrahim]

Is an solution being worked out for this issue?

Samer Ibrahim
http://weblogs.asp.net/SIbrahim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Samer Ibrahim [mailto:SIBRAHIM at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:44 AM
To: 'Mark Hammond'
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Installing SpamBayes for all local users on Win2k

I lied and you are correct :).... here are the log files.  Looks like it
can't write the registry.

Samer Ibrahim
http://weblogs.asp.net/SIbrahim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:26 AM
To: 'Samer Ibrahim'
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Installing SpamBayes for all local users on Win2k

> There is nothing in the Event Log and obviously no SpamBayes
> log because it
> wasn't a full install it was just an attempt to register a DLL.

The log is created by the application, not the installer.  Registration
still creates a log.

> I can get around this by bumping my privileges up but this
> might not be a
> viable solution for others.  Plus it's bad practice
> security-wise.  The
> reason I'm reluctant to do this however is because if it only
> installs as
> admin I'm afraid of what might happen when I bump the
> privileges back down.
> In other words, the program itself might try to do something
> like read from
> the Program Files directory which programs running under a
> regular user
> identity can not do.
>
> Any other ideas?  Do you plan on fixing this in the future?

I really need to see the Python traceback.

Mark
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