Sorry for the late reaction, but I am new to this list. I found this message today via Google. Looks like nobody answered so far.
> From: Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com > Date: Tue May 2 10:28:41 EDT 2006 > Subject: [Mimedefang] Seeing whitelisting errors > > I'm getting the following in my logs: > > May 2 08:26:08 mail mimedefang-multiplexor[4571]: Slave 0 stderr: > auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: > locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile > //.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.mail.redfish-solutions.com.12480 > for //.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory > > and wondering why I'm suddenly seeing these. [ ... ] This is exactly the problem I had. I'm running Fedora Core 4 with MIMEDefang 2.56 and SpamAssassin 3.1.3 installed from CPAN. I upgraded today from SpamAssassin 3.1.1 which had the same error. The upgrade didn't solve the problem. I'm using the redhat startup scripts from the MIMEDefang distribution and I'm getting these error logs for every message that is scanned _only_ after a reboot. The errors disappear after a manual restart of MIMEDefang and sendmail ( service sendmail stop; service mimedefang restart; service sendmail start ). Note the leading //.spamassassin/... (starting with two slashes) in the paths that are logged. And no, '/' is not the home dir of my defang user. This looks like SpamAssassin having trouble to determine the home dir of the MIMEDefang (and SpamAssassin) user when the program is launched at boot time from the FC4 startup scripts. Adding the line "export HOME=/path/to/defang/homedir/" (without quotes) to the config script /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang solved this problem for me. Best regards, Kees. -- Kees Theunissen F.O.M.-Institute for PlasmaPhysics "Rijnhuizen", Nieuwegein, Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: (+31|0)306096724, Fax: (+31|0)306031204 _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
