On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:53:32 +0100 Paul Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter, > > Yes, that's why I have a completely separate quarantine folder, plus on a busy > server where you are quarantining a lot of large messages, in theory the > quarantine could fill the disk and kill the mail system. > > Odd - this should work if the web user is in the www-data group. The best way > to resolve this sort of thing is to use "su" from root to become the web user, > and try to browse the qdir folders. When you have the permissions set > correctly, the script will work. > > Given that the main quarantine list is OK, the folders must already be > accessible, as the main list opens the sender, recipient and headers files from > each folder, as well as the entity header files and the message files which say > why it was quarantined. > > Best Wishes, > > Paul. Thanks for your reply Paul, much appreciated. You hit the nail right on the head with su'ing as www-data. Believe it or not, I never realised you could su as a system user like that! Every day I learn how much I don't know about Linux... I su'd as www-data and get permission denied just trying to get into any of the qdir directories within /var/spool/MIMEDefang, so this explains the problem. Rather than try to fix this in its current location and risk screwing up anything, I'll now look into moving my quarantine directory to another location. I did consider this when I initially looked at your scripts, but thought it should be possible right where they are, but I was wrong (again). I believe the reason I initially got any results at all from quarantine.pl was that I think I looked at that while I was unknowingly receiving unsafe socket errors by making the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory world writeable. I think it was only after I fixed this that I actually tried entering into the qdir's themselves, and therefore got the error. Thanks again for that, and hopefully the only response you'll hear next is it's all working in a new directory :-) Pete _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
