[Mimedefang] Socket File

[Rob MacGregor]

On 5/24/07, Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1) Does the socket exist (ie have you started MIMEDefang)?
>
> Yes...
>
> > 2) What are it's permissions?
>
> -rw-r----- 1 defang defang 6 2007-05-24 09:35 mimedefang.pid
> srwxr-x--- 1 defang defang 0 2007-05-24 09:35 mimedefang.sock

Right, it may be a timing issue - look at your syslog and see if the
socket is created *before* sendmail starts up.

> > 3) What are the permissions on /var and /var/spool (and /)?
>
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root  4096 2006-05-27 16:24 var/
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  4096 2007-05-23 10:25 spool/
> drwxr-x--- 3 defang defang  200 2007-05-24 09:38 MIMEDefang/

That differs from your initial post - I assume you've changed it?

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