[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions
Bill Maidment
bill at maidment.vu
Tue Sep 9 22:18:52 EDT 2008
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:58:28 -0700, John Nemeth wrote
> On Jan 31, 2:39am, "Bill Maidment" wrote:
>
> This can happen when MIMEDefang isn't running (i.e. crashed). Use
> "ps" to see if MIMEDefang is running and/or check your logs to see if
> MIMEDefang has given any errors.
>
> BTW, you don't what OS you are running on. I have found on
> Solaris that you have to use Unix::Syslog. If you use Sys::Syslog, you
> will get this problem.
>
I'm running Fedora 9. mimedefang is still running OK with no warnings.
I installed perl-Unix-Syslog.
17214 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor -p
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.pid -m 4 -x 10 -U defang -b 600 -q 50 -l -s
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
17216 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
17232 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang -P
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid -m
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock -R 1 -U defang -H -t -q -p
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
17249 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
17254 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
17255 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
but i still get
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]
I even re-installed sendmail, but still no difference.
I think I'll go for a walk to clear my head.
Cheers
Bill
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