[Mimedefang] Good morning to the MIMEDefang

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Stefan Schoeman wrote:

> Starting mimedefang-multiplexor: 
> /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor: Unable to 
> chdir(/var/spool/MIMEDefang): Permission denied
> [FAILED]

What about:

+ extended policies of SELinux / AppArmor and the likes?
+ permissions of /var and /var/spool ?

> /var/spool/MIMEDefang is owned by defang.defang and has mode 0700 ? If I su
> to become the defang user, I cannot change to the /var/spool/MIMEDefang

> I realise that this is probably an issue with the updated sudo package, but 
> does anyone have any recommendations ?

"su" is not "sudo".

Maybe there is some problem in your startup script, did you traced it with 
"set -evx" ?

- -e => stop on exit code != 0
- -v => verbose (print before expansions)
- -x => extended (print before execution, after expasion)

Regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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