[Mimedefang] How to run sendmail if sendmail.pid and mimedefang.sock are owned by defang?

[Denis A Ustimenko]

Thank you David!

I was trying to put sendmail.pid to /var/spool/MIMEDefang because of this
text:

# tail -4 mimedefang-2.15/README.NONROOT
5) You *MUST* create the socket(s) and pid file(s) in the spool directory.
As of MIMEDefang 2.13, this is the default.  You may have to edit your
sendmail.cf or sendmail.mc file to use /var/spool/MIMEDefang instead of
/var/run as the directory containing the milter socket.

Regards
Denis

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Denis A Ustimenko wrote:
>
> > I'am trying to run mimedefand with not priveleged UID "defang" but
> > if I do that sendmail complains that /var/spool/MIMEDefang is not
> > owned by root. How do I get through?
>
> Why does Sendmail care about the ownership of /var/spool/MIMEDefang?
> How exactly are you invoking it?  And why is sendmail.pid owned by
> defang?
>
> Remember, you have to start your Sendmail daemon as root.  It's
> mimedefang/mimedefang-multiplexor that run as "defang".
>
> --
> David.
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