This is a follow up to a couple of year old thread. (Although this issue may be different in some important ways.)
After a recent upgrade to mimedefang-2.68-1.el5.rf (on CentOS 5 system), we're seeing the following error message in the logs: Apr 5 16:19:18 intrepid mimedefang-multiplexor[10407]: Slave 0 stderr: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.mutex: Permission denied Both /var/spool/MD-Quarantine and /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/.spamassassin are owned by the "defang" user. So is the autowhitelist DB. But the pid file is owned by root: $ ls -l /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/.spamassassin -rw------- 1 defang defang 12288 Apr 5 13:41 auto-whitelist -rw------- 1 root root 6 Apr 5 14:14 auto-whitelist.mutex The process with the pid recorded in the .mutex file no longer exists. It is curious that this lock file is owned by root, but mimedefang runs as the defang user. I don't know how to tell if white-listing is on, and don't know why/how this .spamassassin directory ends up under /var/spool/MD-Quarantine. On this mail server, we don't want to run AWL under mimedefang any way, so I'd like some tips on how to do that. All help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks. _______________________________________________ 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
