[Mimedefang] Socket File

[Rob MacGregor]

On 5/24/07, Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 20:01 +0100, Rob MacG
> > Right, it may be a timing issue - look at your syslog and see if the
> > socket is created *before* sendmail starts up.
>
> It's not a timing issue for me, as I was having the same problem even
> with a 10 seconds sleep after starting MIMEDefang and before starting
> sendmail, on an idle system.

Can you try:

1) Start MD, watch the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory and syslog to
see if/when the socket is created

2) Once the socket appears start Sendmail, watch the syslog to see
what (if any) errors appear

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Rob MacGregor
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