lock and mkdir problem with 4.11

[Patterson S.R.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Long [mailto:clong at ALPHASYS.FR] 
> Sent: 02 January 2003 11:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: lock and mkdir problem with 4.11
> 
> 
> I have installed the 4.11-1 from the tar ball archive, my 
> system is a debian I have on it a perl 5.6.1 and sendmail 8.12.3 (-4)
> 
> When I let MailScanner try to figure out which lock to use, 
> it choses flock and I have ...
> 
> Jan  2 03:00:40 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: MailScanner
> Jan  2 03:00:40 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: MailScanner 
> E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.11-1 starting... Jan  2 
> 03:00:42 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Using locktype = flock 
> Jan  2 03:00:58 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Could not open file
> >/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/21572/h02B0Sv0021564.header: No such 
> >file or
> directory
> Jan  2 03:00:58 halfdome mailscanner[21572]: Cannot create + 
> lock headers file 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/21572/h02B0Sv0021564.header,

Do you have a /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory?  Or indeed a
/var/spool/MailScanner - beware the case sensitivity?

Is it writeable by whichever user MailScanner is running as? (Not
applicable if running as root)

Is their execute permission for the MailScanner running user or group
(not applicable if running as root) on every directory to that point,
i.e. on /, /var, /var/spool, /var/spool/MailScanner,
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming ?

Steve
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