[Mimedefang] Running as non-root problems

tasdevil at newsguy.com tasdevil at newsguy.com
Mon Aug 19 23:56:01 EDT 2002


Hi, Just about got it going very nicely :)

I'm now trying to make mimedefang run as non-root. I created a user defang and
chowned the MIMEDefang directory to be owned by it. I changed the startup
script to be user defang (and the /var/log/messages confirms it is running as
that user). works fine as root.

However, It gives the following error:

// from /var/log/maillog
Aug 20 13:38:37 scorpion mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 0 (pid 10159)
(1 running): About to perform scan
Aug 20 13:38:37 scorpion mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave died prematurely --
check your filter rules
Aug 20 13:38:37 scorpion mimedefang[10154]: Error from multiplexor: ERR No
response from slave
Aug 20 13:38:37 scorpion sendmail[10153]: g7K3cZOC010153: Milter: data,
reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
Aug 20 13:38:37 scorpion mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid
10159) exited normally with status 1 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTED
L

// from /var/log/messages
Aug 20 13:35:50 scorpion mimedefang-multiplexor: User is: defang
Aug 20 13:35:50 scorpion mimedefang-init: mimedefang-multiplexor startup
succeeded
Aug 20 13:35:51 scorpion mimedefang-init: mimedefang startup succeeded
Aug 20 13:35:56 scorpion sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded


drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec 10  2001 anacron/
drwx------    3 bin      daemon       4096 Jan 18  2002 at/
drwxrwx---    2 smmsp    mail         4096 Aug 20 13:08 clientmqueue/
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 15 14:49 cron/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 27 01:32 fax/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun  2  2000 lpd/
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Aug 20 13:09 mail/
drwx------    4 defang   mail        16384 Aug 20 13:11 MIMEDefang/
drwxrwx---    2 root     mail         4096 Aug 20 13:11 mqueue/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 25  2001 rwho/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 20 10:14 up2date/
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Apr  8 23:07 vbox/


If anyone has any ideas would be grateful.
thank you very much.
craig




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