Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:53:31 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spamd permission problem Message-ID: <44sldbig0k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200702091258.32299.beech@alaskaparadise.com> (Beech Rintoul's message of "Fri\, 9 Feb 2007 12\:58\:17 -0900") References: <200702091258.32299.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
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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/
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