[Mimedefang] About to give up on mimedefang under Redhat Linux 9

Andrew Duggan Andrew.Duggan at its.mq.edu.au
Thu Mar 4 19:21:56 EST 2004


I used the RPM from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/mimedefang/

This is only 2.38 but it works for me.

regards

Andrew Duggan

>>> srp336 at getcoactive.com 5/03/2004 10:49:29 am >>>
I'd really like to get mimedefang working under Redhat Linux 9, but
I'm
about ready to give up. I've tried installing a couple of times, but
every
time I run it, I get

Mar  4 18:30:31 colima mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid
21943) exited normally with status 2 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)

every three seconds. The only other error is about
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock being unsafe. The directory
permissions are:

drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root         4096 Mar  1 17:20 /
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         4096 Jan 28 22:05 /var
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Feb  9 03:23 /var/spool
drwx------    2 defang   defang       4096 Mar  4 18:30
/var/spool/MIMEDefang

I've been searching for days, but no luck. I have managed to get it
installed on a Solaris 7 system previously, with no trouble at all.

I know this is probably a FAQ, but I'm getting desparate...

Thanks,

--Steve

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