ZMailer and MailScanner--a little problem (+one little suggestion :P).

[Mariano Absatz]

Nice...

I guess you modified the end of the CheckQueuesAreTogether() function in 
bin/MailScanner so it doesn't die 'cause you're daemon and the incoming 
router directory is owned by root.

Maybe we could elegantly modify this to check for same ownership, or else, so 
that we have read&write permission on this directory before dying (so that we 
don't break current behavior).

Julian, what do you think about it? As you can see from the sample below, the 
queue directories in ZMailer are world writable (but sticky), and thus you 
don't need that the owner of that directory is the same as you...

El 6 Jun 2003 a las 17:02, Artur Meski escribió:

>       Mariano Absatz <mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR> writes:
> 
> > I never run zmailer as non-root... is that possible? I guess that if it is
> > so, using the same user for zmailer and MailScanner should be possible (in
> > fact, I guess it should be necessary). You should check permissions on
> > MailScanner temporary directories, but that should be it.
> 
> Look:
> 
> Processes:
> [...]
> daemon 33516  0,0  4,6 24524 24008  ??  SJ   16:17     0:02,25 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner /usr/local/libexec/MailSca
> daemon 33517  0,0  4,6 24608 24104  ??  SJ   16:17     0:02,57 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner /usr/local/libexec/MailSca
> daemon 33518  0,0  4,6 24604 24100  ??  SJ   16:18     0:02,96 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner /usr/local/libexec/MailSca
> [...]
> 
> Permissions:
> drwxr-xr-x   5 daemon  wheel  512  5 Cze 23:46 /var/spool/MailScanner/
> drwxrwsrwt   2 root    wheel  512  6 Cze 16:46 /var/spool/postoffice-incoming/router/
> drwxrwsrwt  28 root    wheel  512  6 Cze 16:46 /var/spool/postoffice/router/
> 
> MailScanner.conf:
> Run As User = daemon
> 
> 
> I also had to change MailScanner's source code, because it was
> checking the owner of that directories.
> 
> Maybe it's a good sollution?  Maybe it's an useful information for
> MS+ZM users (for throng of them ;P) and it's worth putting into the
> documentation?
> 
> Artur.
> 
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