MailScanner trying to access all directories under /var/*

[Res]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Ananitya wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 03:41, Res wrote:
>> This might have somthing to do with the fact the mail directories that are
>> used all have to be on the same partition, and as sendmail, postfix and
>> qmail all use different directories it might be testing for all
>> possabilities.

> Hi,
> So MailScanner bypasses its configuration file options at startup ?

No :) I don't think so, however there are hard coded defaults inplace 
incase someone 0 bytes the conf file it has somthing to fall back on to 
at least try keep running.

> under /var/*.

Does it really matter though? I don't use sel because it causes more 
dramas than what the damned things worth on production servers, if it
accesses it, it does it for a reason :)

But a quick look here with sendmail, mailscanner, spamassassin and f-prot

stat64("/var/lock
stat64("/var/spool/MailScanner
stat64("/var/spool/mqueue
connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}
stat64("/var/lib/3.001007"
stat64("/var/tmp"

Nothing that shouldn't be there as far as I can see.



-- 
Cheers
Res

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