[Mimedefang] Problem with permissions
Bill Maidment
bill at maidment.vu
Tue Sep 9 20:01:57 EDT 2008
Guys
I have set up many sendmail/mimedefang systems without any hassles, but this time I've
hit a snag that is defeating me.
When I try to start sendmail it reports:
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]
Permissions looks OK to me:
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2008-08-27 07:02 var
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2008-09-09 13:48 spool
drwx------ 2 defang defang 140 2008-09-10 07:50 MIMEDefang
srwxr-x--- 1 defang defang 0 2008-09-10 07:50 mimedefang.sock
sendmail.mc contains:
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T,
T=S:6m;R:6m;E:15m')dnl
/var/spool/MIMEDefang is mounted by:
/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=512m,mode=0700,uid=defang,gid=defang /dev/shm
/var/spool/MIMEDefang
Can anyone give me a hint as to what is wrong? I bet it's something very simple that
I've forgotten.
Cheers
Bill
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Bill Maidment
Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd
www.maidment.vu
One-armed Consultant to Elgas Ltd
Phone: 02 9904 3364
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