Use of DCC Clarification

[Mike Kercher]

Hard for me to say.  Creating a symlink from /usr/local/bin/dccproc to
/usr/bin/dccproc makes it all work.  I guess it depends on how MailScanner makes
the call.  I'm no programmer, so don't make me lie to you :)

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:33 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Use of DCC Clarification
> 
> 
> At 18:20 08/05/2003, you wrote:
> >/usr/local/bin on my systems
> 
> But should the entry read
>          dcc_path /usr/local/bin
> or
>          dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
> ?
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On 
> >Behalf Of Julian Field
> >Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:19 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: Use of DCC Clarification
> >
> >
> >At 17:37 08/05/2003, Gerry Doris wrote:
> > > > At 23:31 07/05/2003, you wrote:
> > > >>On Wed, 7 May 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> > > >> > Can you just do a quick test for me, and set 
> dcc_path to a path 
> > > >> > that
> > > >> > *doesn't* exist please?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I want to make sure that no error messages are 
> logged anywhere, 
> > > >> > as otherwise the logging is going to get very noisy 
> if it gets 
> > > >> > an error
> > > >> for
> > > >> > every message.
> > > >> > --
> > > >> > Julian Field
> > > >> > www.MailScanner.info
> > > >> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > > >>
> > > >>I couldn't find any sign of an error message with an incorrect 
> > > >>dcc_path parameter.  There's no messages to root, nothing in 
> > > >>/var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog and no mention in the 
> > > >>headers. DCC checking just  doesn't happen.
> > > >
> > > > I have changed the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file for the next 
> > > > release so that this rule is no longer set to 0.
> > > > --
> > > > Julian Field
> > > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > >
> > >Just so we're clear on this...
> > >
> > >You're going to change the existing DCC rule so that it 
> isn't set to 
> > >0
> >
> >Done.
> >
> > >  and
> > >you're going to add the dcc_path statement?  Both of those 
> seem to be 
> > >required to make DCC work.
> >
> >Haven't done that yet.
> >What should I set it to for a normal dcc installation? (I 
> don't use dcc 
> >myself
> >yet)
> >
> >
> >--
> >Julian Field
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> MailScanner thanks 
> >transtec Computers for their support
> 
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz 
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>