[Mimedefang] mimedefang.sh does nothing

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, jef moskot wrote:
> I just installed MIMEDefang from ports on a FreeBSD 7.0 machine. 
> Followed the instructions and now I want to test the config (with
> sendmail).
>
> Trying to send a message yields this
> "Milter (mimedefang): local socket name
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe" in /var/log/maillog.
>
> Makes sense, because as it turns out, mimedefang isn't running.
>
> So, I cd to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and attempt to run mimedefang.sh
> (which is just an unmodified copy of mimedefang.sh-dist).
>
> # ./mimedefang.sh start
>
> Nothing happens.  No mimedefang processes start, no complaints, I
> can't find error messages in various log files, etc.
>
> mimedefang.sh looks reasonable and is not entirely braindead:
>
> # ./mimedefang.sh
> Usage: ./mimedefang.sh
> [fast|force|one](start|stop|restart|rcvar|reload|reread|status|poll)
>
> I haven't made any significant modifications (just changed the email
> addresses in mimedefang-filter) to any of the conf files, since I'm
> not that far along yet.
>
> Is there somewhere I might get some feedback as to what's going on
> (or not going on)?

As with every FreeBSD rc.d script - you need to enable it in rc.conf 
before it will run.

Try...
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh rcvar


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