[Mimedefang] Permissions on /varspool/MIMEDefang

Steffen Kaiser skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Thu Feb 11 08:42:19 EST 2016


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On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Bill Maidment wrote:
> -----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.

File a bug with RedHat or where your repo is located, the socket should be 
located somewhere else.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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