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

Paul Rogers paul.rogers at dsl.pipex.com
Sun May 25 08:00:01 EDT 2003


Jim and all,

Thanks for the response - if I set the uid of mimedefang to mail (uid of
sendmail processes) I no longer get the errors. Is there a way to have
sendmail and mimedefang running as two different uids?

Cheers,

P.

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of Jim
McCullars
Sent: 25 May 2003 00:43
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] local socket name
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe




On Sat, 24 May 2003, Paul Rogers wrote:

> srw-rw----    1 spamd    spamd           0 May 23 15:46 mimedefang.sock
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated - Jim: did you issue get resolved
and
> if so how did you do it? :)

   On my host, mimedefang.sock does not have group write permission.
Sendmail doesn't usually like that.

Jim


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