RunAsUser postfix issue

[Brian Peterson]

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I resolved this issue for Mac OS X v10.3.5 using postfix.  There were a
couple problems I ran into.

The default SetUidGid function didn't work but the commented out
version using POSIX::setgid did work so I used that.  Anyone foresee
any problems with using this?

The error message below was being generated in the
MailScanner::Log::LogText function.  This module has a Start function
which appears to do the right thing but doesn't appear to be called
anywhere.  Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix') was required for Mac OS X so
I ended up just adding it to the LogText routine.


thanks
Brian Peterson
On Aug 10, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Brian Peterson wrote:

> I'm having problems starting MailScanner when setting the Run As User
> to postfix.
>
> server:/opt/MailScanner/bin root# ./check_mailscanner
> Starting MailScanner...
> Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4
> at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Socket.pm line
> 373.
>
> Anyone have any idea how to debug where this error might be coming
> from?  I suspect it's several modules deep as there don't appear to be
> any direct calls to pack_sockaddr_in.
>
> If I define the Run As User as root, MailScanner starts properly but
> obviously there are issues with the saving files to the outgoing
> postifix spool.
>
> server:/opt/MailScanner/bin root# ./MailScanner -V
> This is Perl version 5.008001
> This is MailScanner version 4.32.5
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.12    Archive::Zip
> 1.01    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.04    Fcntl
> 2.71    File::Basename
> 2.05    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.05    File::Path
> 0.13    File::Temp
> 1.23    HTML::Entities
> 3.26    HTML::Parser
> 2.24    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.20    IO
> 1.09    IO::File
> 1.122   IO::Pipe
> 5.403   MIME::Decoder
> 5.403   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.403   MIME::Head
> 5.406   MIME::Parser
> 5.411   MIME::Tools
> 0.09    Net::CIDR
> 1.05    POSIX
> 1.75    Socket
> 0.03    Sys::Syslog
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
>
> thanks
> Brian Peterson
>
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