[Mimedefang] mimedefang.sock is "unsafe"...

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 30.03.2004 schrieb Ken Morley um 20:05:
> I'm running Red Hat 8 patched to the latest rev, Sendmail 8.12.11 and
> MIMEDefang 2.41.
> 
> I think that everything is installed correctly, but I have a problem that I
> can't seem to resolve:
> 
> Upon each received e-mail, I see errors similar to the following in maillog:
> 
> Mar 30 12:56:45 linux sendmail[1113]: i2UHuj3A001113: Milter (mimedefang):
> local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock' unsafe
> Mar 30 12:56:45 linux sendmail[1113]: i2UHuj3A001113: Milter (mimedefang):
> to error state
> 
> MIMEDefang is running as the "defang" user.  "defang" owns the directory and
> the mode is set to 700.
> 
> I'm assuming that this means that sendmail will not process through
> MIMEDefang until resolved.
> 
> Any ideas as to how to fix this issue?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ken Morley

Make sure the socket is created by Mimedefang befor Sendmail is started.

Alexander


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