Re: Fwd: milter root user?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 03), Paul 'Google' Smit said:
> ** Have you configured sendmail to use the milter?
> - yes I did... in sendmail.mc
> 
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', 
> `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock, 
> F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
> define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `spamassassin')dnl
> 
> ** Do you see any spamass-milter entries in the log?
> - Not anymore since:
> Sep  1 09:11:51 fussy sendmail[16056]: j817Bon5016056: Milter (spamassassin): 
> error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/run/spamass.sock
> Sep  1 09:11:51 fussy sendmail[16056]: j817Bon5016056: Milter (spamassassin): 
> to error state
> (changed the .sock location in sendmail.mc, restarted sendmail. nothing 
> happens anymore)
> 
> spamass-milter & spamass-milter-wrapper are running in memory (user: sa-milt)

According to sendmail, there was nothing listening at the other end of
/var/run/spamass.sock.  After fixing that, it looks like sendmail's
happy (assuming you have sent a test message through).  If you kill
spamass-milter, you should start seeing errors again.
 
> ** How about if you add "-d misc" to the spamass-milter commandline? 
> - What is the purpose of that?

It makes it so each message should generate a bunch of log entries.

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        Dan Nelson
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