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

G. Roderick Singleton gerry at pathtech.org
Tue Nov 11 14:29:33 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:17, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> I'm having a problem with mimedefang getting this error  "local socket name
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe".
>  
> I checked the permissions on /var /var/spool and /var/spool/MIMEdefang, they
> are all owned by defang and the process starts with no problems. However
> when it tries to process a piece of mail it gives this error in the maillog
> and tells the user to try again later. I'm out of ideas a the only thing I
> can google is the file permission problems. 
>  

You don't say what OS but if it's RH there's an additional init file,
mimedefang-sysconfig, to install. 

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Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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