[Mimedefang] multiplexor error

[An.H.Nguyen]

I keep getting these errors when I turn on AWL.
Thanks for any help.
An Nguyen

Jul 28 10:38:55  mimedefang-multiplexor[1223]: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0
stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker:
safe_lock: cannot create lockfile
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist.mutex: Permission denied
Jul 28 10:39:02  mimedefang-multiplexor[1223]: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0
stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker:
safe_lock: cannot create lockfile
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist.mutex: Permission denied
Jul 28 10:39:38  mimedefang-multiplexor[1223]: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0
stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker:
safe_lock: cannot create lockfile
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist.mutex: Permission denied
Jul 28 10:39:44  mimedefang-multiplexor[1223]: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0
stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker:
safe_lock: cannot create lockfile
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist.mutex: Permission denied
Jul 28 10:39:49  mimedefang-multiplexor[1223]: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0
stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker:
safe_lock: cannot create lockfile
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist.mutex: Permission denied


I have these lines in my sa-mimedefang.cf
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#Enable bayes
auto_learn 1
use_bayes 1
bayes_path  /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0666
#Enable AWL
auto_whitelist_path        /var/spool/MIMEDefang/auto_whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode   0666
lock_method flock

and the permission on the files below
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bash-3.00# ls -al /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
total 258
drwx------   3 defang   defang       980 Jul 28 10:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root     bin          512 May 21 18:17 ..
drwx------   2 defang   defang       319 Jul 28 10:17 .spamassassin
-rw-r-----   1 defang   defang     24576 Jul 28 10:36 auto_whitelist
--w--w--w-   1 defang   defang         5 Jul 28 10:36 auto_whitelist.mutex
--w--w--w-   1 defang   defang         5 Jul 28 10:34 bayes.mutex
-rw-rw-rw-   1 defang   defang     24576 Jul 28 10:34 bayes_seen
-rw-rw-rw-   1 defang   defang     24576 Jul 28 10:34 bayes_toks
-rw-rw----   1 defang   defang         4 Jul 28 10:43 clamd.pid
srwxrwxrwx   1 defang   defang         0 Jul 28 10:43 clamd.sock
-rw-r-----   1 defang   defang         5 Jul 28 10:42
mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-------   1 defang   defang         0 Jul 28 10:42
mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
-rw-r-----   1 defang   defang         5 Jul 28 10:42 mimedefang.pid
srwxr-x---   1 defang   defang         0 Jul 28 10:42 mimedefang.sock
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# ls -al /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.spamassassin
total 432
drwx------   2 defang   defang       319 Jul 28 10:17 .
drwx------   4 defang   defang      1059 Jul 28 10:55 ..
-rw-------   1 defang   defang         6 Jul 28 10:29 bayes.mutex
-rw-------   1 defang   defang     24576 Jul 28 10:29 bayes_seen
-rw-------   1 defang   defang    172032 Jul 28 10:29 bayes_toks
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