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Subject: Re: spamd permission problem
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Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> writes:

> I've been getting the following on my mailserver. It started after an 
> update:
>
> Feb  9 12:52:29 pinnacle spamd[89269]: spamd: could not create INET 
> socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Permission denied
>
> Any ideas how to fix the permissions?

Perhaps you have a stale script for starting it?  I believe it's
supposed to start as root and only drop to the spamd user after it has
opened its sockets.

Or maybe it's starting twice?  You could check whether the port is
already held... (using sockstat).

Be well.
-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/