[Mimedefang] Solaris syslog error

[Alex S Moore]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:59:33 -0800
David Minor <minor at fusion.gat.com> wrote:

> Hi - I'm working on my second install of MIMEDefang. I've been running 
> it for two weeks on a test box with great results but I'm having 
> problems now that I'm trying to install it on our production machine.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing has been addressed here before but the answers 
> given don't seem to work for me. I'm installing version 2.42 on a box 
> running Solaris 8. I also have SpamAssassin version 2.63 installed as 
> well as Sendmail Switch (the commercial version of Sendmail).
> 
> Everything installs with no errors but when I try to run I get a syslog 
> error:
> 
> mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0 stderr: unix 
> dgram connect: Socket operation on non-socket at 
> /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 435
> 
> mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0 stderr: no 
> connection to syslog available at /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 435
> 

This may not help with MIMEDefang, but here is a post that I made in the SpamAssassin mailing list:
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> unix dgram connect: Socket operation on non-socket at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 282
> 

Best I can recollect, the code tries for a unix socket to syslog, then
if that fails, a inet socket.  The first attempt causes this message. 
The second attempt works.

Add --syslog-socket=inet to the spamd startup line.
--
Alex