Help disentaggleng clamav-milter milter.conf instructions ??

[William Case]

Thanks Kevin;

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:49 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I have been chasing this around for most of the day.
> > 
> > I am user: bill on a home desktop system that may connect to another
> > Linux box sometime in the near but indefinite future.
> > 
> > I keep getting an error at startup that "user clamilt does not exist",
> > even after I have configured user as  'bill' or 'root'.
> > 
> > Milter.conf says:
> > 
> > # Run as a selected user (clamd must be started by root).
> > # Default: disabled 
> > #User clamilt
> > 
> > What does it mean?
> 
> It means that your system must have a userid for the name clamilt, as by
> default, clamilt will change to this userid after it starts running (so
> it doesn't run as root).  You must have a valid userid for this user in
> your /etc/passwd file.  If you installed clamilt from an RPM, it should
> have created this userid for you.  There are also files and directories
> that it must access that need to be accessible to this user.
> 
> > Should the user be enabled or disabled ?
> 
> The userid shouold exist on your system.  It doesn't matter what the
> userid number is (as long as it is unique).
> 
> > Who is the selected user? root or bill or clamilt?
> 
> see the above, root will start clamilt, then it will change the running
> userid to that of the clamilt user.
> 
> > If the user should be clamilt, do I have to create a user?
> 
> It should have happened as a part of installing from the RPM.
  It didn't happen.  There is no clamilt in my passwd file or anywhere
else on my computer.  I'll remove clamav-milter and re-install.

Thanks for your answer.

-- 
Regards Bill