Problem with spamassassin/sendmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 17.10.2005 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 14:06:

> 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 ,

> 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 .

Correct.

> What does it mean to say that this is "unsafe"?

Unfortunately that error message is a bit general and can even be
misleading as Craig already explained (the case where the socket file is
even missing would generate the same message).

> I notice that spamass-milter seems to have no problem
> with /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock .

And that is the kind of setup the spamass-milter package from Fedora
Extras, packaged by Paul Howarth, ships with.

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/spamass-milter/FC-4/spamass-milter.spec?root=extras&rev=1.5&view=markup

> Timothy Murphy  

The reason for the problem is, that /var/run has too much permissions.
Let the socket file reside in /var/run/spamass-milter, which is owned by
the owner of the process (sa-milt) and be sure the directory has only
chmod 700.

Alexander


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