Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:42:00 +0400 From: Grigory Klyuchnikov <grn@ispras.ru> To: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of sendmail milters, security questions Message-ID: <4173E448.3050809@ispras.ru> In-Reply-To: <4171D15D.5010004@dreamchaser.org> References: <4171D15D.5010004@dreamchaser.org>
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Gary Aitken wrote: > Hello all, > > Searches on freebsd.org, google and sendmail.org didn't really resolve > this to my satisfaction; probably my lack of brain cells... > > Trying to install milter-greylist. > After configuring sendmail, and without the milter-greylist daemon > running, maillog contains messages of the type: > > sm-mta[59533]: i9H12H4P059533: Milter (greylist): local socket name > /var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock unsafe > > From what I've been able to dig up, this is because sendmail thinks > it's unsafe to read/write that socket. > Since milter-greylist was not actually running when I did this, > (I hadn't started it manually or configured a script to auto start it) > I assumed it had something to do with directory prermissions / > ownership. > > Upon checking, I discovered /var/milter-greylist was owned by smmsp, > so I changed it to root. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the > problem. > > I'm at a loss to understand what else is causing sendmail to think > that socket is unsafe. Can someone hand me a clue? May be http://www.milter.org/ can help you Best regards, Grigory Klyuchnikov > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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