Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:56:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation of sendmail milters, security questions Message-ID: <4171D15D.5010004@dreamchaser.org>
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Hello all, Searches on freebsd.org, google and sendmail.org didn't really resolve this to my satisfaction; probably my lack of brain cells... Trying to install milter-greylist. After configuring sendmail, and without the milter-greylist daemon running, maillog contains messages of the type: sm-mta[59533]: i9H12H4P059533: Milter (greylist): local socket name /var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock unsafe From what I've been able to dig up, this is because sendmail thinks it's unsafe to read/write that socket. Since milter-greylist was not actually running when I did this, (I hadn't started it manually or configured a script to auto start it) I assumed it had something to do with directory prermissions / ownership. Upon checking, I discovered /var/milter-greylist was owned by smmsp, so I changed it to root. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem. I'm at a loss to understand what else is causing sendmail to think that socket is unsafe. Can someone hand me a clue? Thanks, Gary
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