[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions

[Bill Maidment]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:33:44 -0500 (CDT), asbaeza wrote
> I guess you changed the mode of the M
> IMEDefang directory in order to test, did not you? So, have you restart
> mimedefang after that?
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:58:29 -0500 (CDT), asbaeza wrote
> >> MIMEDefang directory must have 755 perms
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I think not, but anyway even with 755 it fails the same way.
> >

Yup

Starting clamd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting spamd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting freshclam:                                        [  OK  ]
Checking filter syntax: OK
Starting mimedefang-multiplexor:                           [  OK  ]
Starting mimedefang:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1804: Xmimedefang: local socket
name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe: Permission denied
                                                           [FAILED]
[root at b090lx44 etc]# ls -ld /var/spool/
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2008-09-10 11:47 /var/spool/
[root at b090lx44 etc]# ls -ld /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
drwxr-xr-x 2 defang defang 140 2008-09-10 12:01 /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
[root at b090lx44 etc]# ls -al /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 defang defang  140 2008-09-10 12:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root   root   4096 2008-09-10 11:47 ..
srwxrwxrwx  1 defang defang    0 2008-09-10 12:01 clamd.sock
-rw-r-----  1 defang defang    6 2008-09-10 12:01 mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-------  1 defang defang    0 2008-09-10 12:01 mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
-rw-r-----  1 defang defang    6 2008-09-10 12:01 mimedefang.pid
srwxr-x---  1 defang defang    0 2008-09-10 12:01 mimedefang.sock
[root at b090lx44 etc]# 


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