Problem with spamassassin/sendmail

[John Mason Jr]

A quick google shows this link which tends to indicate it may be a 
permissions issue

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/spamass-milt-list/2003-04/msg00028.html>


John


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> <posted & mailed>
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> 
>>>spamassassin seems to have stopped performing on my desktop.
>>>I am getting the following 2-line message in /var/log/maillog :
>>>===============================================================
>>>Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341:
>>>        Milter (spamassassin):
>>>        local socket name /var/run/spamass.sock unsafe
>>>Oct 16 03:25:10 alfred sendmail[7341]: j9G2PAGa007341:
>>>        Milter (spamassassin):
>>>        to error state
>>>===============================================================
> 
> ...
> 
>>>I'm running Fedora-4, with spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4
>>>and spamass-milter-0.3.0-8.fc4 ,
>>>
>>>Any and all suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>>----
>>service spamass-milter restart
> 
> 
> Thanks for the response, and for the suggestion.
> 
> I had tried this before, but I tried it again.
> (I also restarted spamassassin and sendmail.)
> However, I am still getting the message above repeatedly
> in /var/log/maillog .
> It is repeated every 10 minutes, which is the period
> at which I collect email,
> admittedly by the rather odd method of uucp (uucico),
> but I don't think that should be a problem.
> 
> The message comes from sendmail,
> and seems to suggest that sendmail does not like to open a socket
> with local name /var/run/spamass.sock .
> 
> What does it mean to say that this is "unsafe"?
> 
> I notice that spamass-milter seems to have no problem
> with /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock .
> 
> If anyone can throw enlightenment on this,
> I shall be very grateful.
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