On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Stefan Schoeman wrote:
> Good morning to the MIMEDefang List,
>
> It seems that some of my machines running Slackware experienced an
> upgrade to the sudo package last night.
> This morning, I've got MIMEDefang multiplexor refusing to start, stating
> the following:
>
> Starting mimedefang-multiplexor:
> /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor: Unable to
> chdir(/var/spool/MIMEDefang): Permission denied
> [FAILED]
Hi Stefan. I think the problem is you updated your sudo package too soon, as
two more updates to the same package have occurred due to bad permissions on
/var. Not sure what version of Slackware you are running, but take a look at
the Slackware-13.1 changelog:
Wed Sep 15 18:51:21 UTC 2010
patches/packages/sudo-1.7.4p4-i486-3_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Hi folks, since the patches for old systems (8.1 - 10.2) were briefly
available containing a /var/lib with incorrect permissions, I'm issuing
these again just to be 100% sure that no systems out there will be left
with problems due to that. This should do it (third time's the charm).
+--------------------------+
Wed Sep 15 05:58:55 UTC 2010
patches/packages/sudo-1.7.4p4-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
The last sudo packages accidentally changed the permissions on /var from
755 to 700. This build restores the proper permissions.
Thanks to Petri Kaukasoina for pointing this out.
+--------------------------+
Just updated my Slackware server, and MIMEDefang still starts up fine. Try
running another update.
CU L8R...
Todd A. Aiken
Systems Analyst & Administrator
ITS Department
BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY
Sherbrooke, Quebec, CANADA
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