Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Martinec
Gary, The final version of amavisd-new 2.3.2 will not *require* 0.88, will it? No, although I toyed with the idea, as it removes the need to apply two patches to it (the setuid fix and providing a new hook for a SAVI Perl module) and avoids a need for amavisd to provide its own sub done().

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-28 Thread Gary V
Gary wrote: Tom wrote: i was going for .83 of Net::Server i downloaded it to an MS box that was running ftp. maybe MS screwed with the file. I couldn't do a wget from Redhat. i kept getting access denied. but from a browser it worked. i'm not running x-windows on the box. strange.

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Martinec
Gary, Seems to have worked. What a pain. Did anyone notify the Net::Server author Actually, yes, I filed a bug report with CPAN. Funny. When Net::Server 0.88 finally fixed the long-standing setuid security problem for everybody else, it seems to be failing on ancient bug-infested

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-28 Thread Gary V
Mark wrote: Gary, Seems to have worked. What a pain. Did anyone notify the Net::Server author Actually, yes, I filed a bug report with CPAN. Funny. When Net::Server 0.88 finally fixed the long-standing setuid security problem for everybody else, it seems to be failing on ancient

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-28 Thread Ronny Nussbaum
BTW, on the subject of bugs, the new 2.74 version of razor-agents is out. wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/razor/razor-agents-2.74.tar.bz2 Hmm, I'm not used to .bz2 I did this: bunzip2 -v razor-agents-2.74.tar.bz2 tar xvf razor-agents-2.74.tar seems to work. Gary V

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, I'm running Amavis-new-2.3.1 with Postfix(not chrooted) on redhat ES 3 When I try to reload or stop amavis, I get- No PID file /var/amavis/amavisd.pid, can't reload the process Because most likely amavisd is not running. /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[7870]: Net::Server: Setting gid to 999

RE: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Kern, Tom
If only it were that simple. i do have a amavis group with gid of 999 from my /etc/group- amavis:x:999: The amavis user and group have full rights on the /var/amavis dir. What else? thanks Mark Martinec wrote: Tom, I'm running Amavis-new-2.3.1 with Postfix(not chrooted) on redhat ES 3

RE: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Kern, Tom
Gary V wrote: Tom wrote: Well, i changed the uid/gid to a diff # and still no go. what am i doing wrong? I had the identical setup except for an older verison of amavis on RHEL3 and it worked fine. Now its broken. It doesn't seem to complain about the uid. does that mean thats ok? what

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Gary V
Tom wrote: Gary V wrote: Tom wrote: Well, i changed the uid/gid to a diff # and still no go. what am i doing wrong? I had the identical setup except for an older verison of amavis on RHEL3 and it worked fine. Now its broken. It doesn't seem to complain about the uid. does that mean thats

RE: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Kern, Tom
Gary V wrote: Tom wrote: Gary V wrote: Tom wrote: Well, i changed the uid/gid to a diff # and still no go. what am i doing wrong? I had the identical setup except for an older verison of amavis on RHEL3 and it worked fine. Now its broken. It doesn't seem to complain about the uid. does

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Gary V
Clifton wrote: Perl 5.8.0 had some significant bugs fixed in later releases of 5.8.0, and Mark has many times warned that amavisd can tickle some of them. -- Clifton I think one of the strange things I found when I played with Fedora Core 2 was that it 'installs' 5 different versions of

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Gary V
Tom wrote: What distro of linux do you guys recommend? In a perfect world what's the ideal distro you would run? i just picked RH because thats what I know and it has support so it made my managers happy to go with a known name but i'd like to know what you would use if you could pick any

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Gary V
Gary wrote: Tom wrote: What distro of linux do you guys recommend? In a perfect world what's the ideal distro you would run? i just picked RH because thats what I know and it has support so it made my managers happy to go with a known name but i'd like to know what you would use if you

Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, amavis:x:886:886:amavisd-new daemon:/var/amavis:/sbin/nologin I don't know what is going on on your host, but as a workaround you can start amavisd with an option -u, giving it a username to change uid to. This way the Net::Server will be completely relieved of attempting to change uid or

RE: [AMaViS-user] Pid error

2005-06-27 Thread Kern, Tom
again -Original Message- From: Gary V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:50 PM To: Kern, Tom Cc: amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] Pid error Tom wrote: i'm running perl 5.8.0. what's there to upgrade to? I rebuilt the box. it was running