[Mimedefang] "Cant open tmpfile" error

[Cormack, Ken]

David,

The problem turned out to be restricted perms on /tmp.  Instead of finding
them at 1777, I found them to be set to 755.  How they got like that, I'm
not sure.  However, we were testing some new backup/restore software on the
morning when the mail logs say the problem first started happening, and I
had the backup admin perform some test "restores to alternate directories",
to the /tmp directory on that server.  That was Tuesday.  I'm wondering if
the restore process somehow changed the perms on the directory, and am
following through with him on that hypothesis.

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: David F. Skoll [mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:52 PM
To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] "Cant open tmpfile" error


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Cormack, Ken wrote:

> Feb  3 16:16:09 mail02 mimedefang-multiplexor[574]: Slave 3 stderr:
> MIME::Parser: can't open tmpfile: Invalid argument

This is coming from deep in the guts of IO::File->new_tmpfile.
Could you have a TMPDIR environment variable set that's pointing
somewhere strange?  Could /tmp be full?

Regards,

David.
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