What is this spamd message trying to tell me???

[Reg Clemens]

I am seeing the message

    deneb spamd[2859]: prefork: child states: II

and

   deneb spamd[2976]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: 
auto-whitelist:     cannot open auto_whitelist_path 
/home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate  ioctl for device

in the second case, the file /home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist exists, 
and is
writable by everyone (666) and owned by me user/group.  [ it was 644 but I 
though
666 might help, id didnt]

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                                        Reg.Clemens
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