[Mimedefang] local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe

Xiaoyan Ma xma at haas.berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 11 14:02:13 EST 2003


I am testing mimedefang 2.30 on a Solaris 8 box running sendmail 8.12.8.  I 
have trophie and spamassassin run through mimedefang.  Things are working 
fine as far as I can tell, but from time to time I got this error message 
in the log:

  sm-mta[2774]: [ID 801593 mail.error] h2BINHb9002774: Milter (mimedefang):
local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe

Here are permissions I have:

# ls -ld /var/spool/MIMEDefang
drwx------   5 defang   defang       512 Mar 11 10:56 /var/spool/MIMEDefang

# ls -l /var/spool/MIMEDefang/*
-rw-------   1 defang   defang         5 Mar 11 10:25 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-------   1 defang   defang         0 Mar 11 10:25 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
-rw-------   1 defang   defang         5 Mar 11 10:25 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid
srwx------   1 defang   defang         0 Mar 11 10:25 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
srwxrwx---   1 defang   defang         0 Mar 11 09:45 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/trophie
-rw-rw----   1 root     other          5 Mar 11 09:45 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/trophie.pid


Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Xiaoyan




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