Confused

[Julian Field]

At 18:44 11/05/2003, you wrote:
>Kevin
>
> > /var/spool/postfix/incoming is not owned by user 500 !
> >
> > Hmmmmm, user 500 is usually a 'real' (human) user.  Why is MS running as
> > that?
>
>
>Ah !!  I thought I was just being stupid :)  Looking under YaST2
>rather than using a simple command line expression I find that...
>
>login: richard  name: Richard  UID: 500  Groups:  users, uucp,
>dialout, audio, floppy, cdrom, video, postfix, snort.
>
> > I can't imagine that SuSE would have postfix running with uid 500.
>
>Dunno
>
> > As a general rule of thumb you need to make sure that you specify the
> > user and group that postfix run as in MailScanner.conf (Run As User and
> > Run As Group),
>
>So, put 500 and not richard ?
>
> >make sure that the postfix user has a real home directory
> > specified in /etc/passwd (if not, change it with usermod) and that that
> > home directory is writable by the postfix user.
>
>Hmmm... not sure how to do that one.
>
> >Ensure that the
> > SpamAssassin User State Dir entry in MailScanner.conf points to that
> > directory.  Finally start MailScanner by su'ing to root ('su -' not just
> > 'su') and doing /etc/init.d/MailScanner start
>
>result:
>
> >sheflug:~ # /etc/init.d/MailScanner start
> >Initializing sendmail and MailScannersendmail: invalid option -- O
> >sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]

Run redhat-switchmail-nox and select postfix.
Then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop
Also edit /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and make sure it says
MTA=postfix
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