[Mimedefang] cannot write to /var/spool/MIMEDefang_journal

[SRAR Mail Administrator]

On May 3, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:

> You may also want to check the permissions of /var and /var/spool, to 
> make sure MD has access to the directory.

/var & /var/spool are & have always been: root.root - 755. I upgraded 
MD to 2.41 (from 2.39) last month. Perhaps there's a change there that 
I missed?

>
> SRAR Mail Administrator wrote:
>
>> I happened to need to restart our mail server today, and when I 
>> tailed the maillog (paranoia runs deep), I noticed this message:
>>
>> May  3 15:11:17 meow mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: cannot 
>> write to /var/spool/MIMEDefang_journal, Bayes db update ignored
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