[Mimedefang] Permissions on /varspool/MIMEDefang

[Bill Maidment]

-----Original message-----
> From:Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com>
> Sent: Thursday 11th February 2016 18:22
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Permissions on /varspool/MIMEDefang
> 
> 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?
> 

It may be coming from EPEL (the packager), but the file is mimedefang.conf not mimedefang-2.78

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

I meant /var/spool/MIMEDefang

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

It's where clamd at scan wants to store the clamd.sock when communicating with mimedefang.

> -- 
> Richard
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