[Mimedefang] Socket paths

[Richard Laager]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:45 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.

Why's that? Couldn't the socket itself be writable by the defang user...
or does the daemon need to unlink() it?

Richard

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