I'm floundering trying to set up blacklisting in spamassassin. My
old directions no longer work. I have no DE, so I am not helped
by directions to use cPanel. I'm running daedalus. Spamassassin
and spamd are both installed. I am in the debian-spamd group. I
use exim4, but not postfix.

# spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 4.0.1
running on Perl version 5.36.0

  # netstat -tap | grep spamd
  tcp     0   0 localhost:spamd   0.0.0.0:*  LISTEN   5019/spamd
  cp6    0   0 localhost:spamd   [::]:*     LISTEN   5019/spamd

I have trouble starting spamassassin:

# service spamassassin restart
unrecognized service

# /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
-bash: /etc/init.d/spamassassin: No such file or directory

# service /etc/init.d/spamd restart
/etc/init.d/spamd: unrecognized service

# update-rc.d spamassassin enable
update-rc.d: error: cannot find a LSB script for spamassassin

I cannot access the spamassassin config file:

# nano /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
-bash: /etc/spamassassin/local.cf: Permission denied
This file is -rw-r--r--

For blacklisting I used to put a user_prefs file in
~/.spamassassin

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     Haines Brown