[Mimedefang] Setting up non-root MD

[Hamilton, Kent]

Except when that doesn't work because your AV software can't touch the
MIMEDefang spool.
I'm running on FreeBSD which runs sendmail as user "smmsp" and my solution
was:

Run the AV software as "mailnull" 
Run MIMEDefang as "mailnull"

touch /var/log/{your_av_software_log}
touch /var/log/md-stats (or whereever you put 'em)
chown mailnull /var/log/{av_software_log,md-stats}
chown -R mailnull /var/spool/MIMEDefang
I also had to write my PID files into the MDSPOOL directory rather than the
normal "/var/run".

If you are running clamd then you will need to modify the code before you
compile it, or at least I had to.
OpenAntivirus didn't seem to care one way or another.


--
Kent Hamilton KHamilton at Hunter.COM
Manager - Systems & Networking
Hunter Engineering Company
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:00 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Setting up non-root MD
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone give me a hand with my MD installation?
> 
> 1) Add the "defang" user
> 
> 2) mkdir /var/spool/MIMEDefang
> 
> 3) chown defang /var/spool/MIMEDefang
> 
> 4) chmod 700 /var/spool/MIMEDefang
> 
> 5) Use the "-U defang" options to mimedefang and 
> mimedefang-multiplexor.
> The sample generic init script should work on just about any UNIX-like
> system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
> 
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