[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions

John Nemeth jnemeth at victoria.tc.ca
Tue Sep 9 22:05:04 EDT 2008


On Jan 31,  4:51am, Alan Premselaar wrote:
} on 9/10/08 7:04 AM Bill Maidment said the following:
} 
} > 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]
} ...snip...
} > 
} > drwx------  2 defang defang  140 2008-09-10 07:50 MIMEDefang
} 
}  Since it's very likely that sendmail is not being run as the defang
} user, it doesn't have read permissions to /var/spool/MIMEDefang.

     No, but it is being run as root.

} Therefore, you need to set the permissions to 755.

     Wrong, see above.

}-- End of excerpt from Alan Premselaar



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