[Mimedefang] Socket paths

[David F. Skoll]

Josh Kelley wrote:

> I see in the redhat/mimedefang-init.in and
> redhat/mimedefang-sysconfig.in files in the source tarball that the
> sockets used to be placed under /var/run by default and are now placed
> under /var/spool/MIMEDefang.  I was curious to know why this change
> was made?

Because the sockets need to be in a directory that's writable by the
"defang" user.

> I'm trying to figure out some SELinux issues on my mail server, and it
> looks like putting the sockets back under /var/run may be the best way
> to fix those issues.  (It also looks like /var/run is more consistent
> with convention and with the LSB.)  Based on that, I was wondering if
> the default socket paths should be changed back to /var/run.

Possibly, but we are so dependent on having them in /var/spool/MIMEDefang
that I doubt I will make that change in the mainline code.

Regards,

David.