[Mimedefang] Permissions on /varspool/MIMEDefang

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Thu Feb 11 02:14:02 EST 2016


On 02/10/2016 11:01 PM, Bill Maidment wrote:
> Hi
> After your most recent release I have had problems with the permissions on /var/spool/MIMEDefang being reset to 0750 after a reboot.
> I need the permission to be 0770 to allow for clamd scanner to use the directory.
> I eventually discovered this line in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mimedefang.conf
> z /var/spool/MD-Quarantine 0750 defang defang - -

`grep -r tmpfiles.d mimedefang-2.78` returns nothing for me. Are you 
sure this isn't coming from your distro's package of MIMEDefang?

Also, /var/spool/MIMEDefang and /var/spool/MD-Quarantine aren't the same 
thing.

And in any event, why would clamd need to write to /var/spool/MIMEDefang?

-- 
Richard



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