[Solved] Looks like permissions, but unsure where

[Matt Hayes]

Matt Hayes wrote:
> Matt Hayes wrote:
>> Ok all,
>>
>> Just upgraded to the newest MailScanner, did everything like I 
>> normally do.. switched to clamd and I'm getting this:
>>
>> MailScanner[20004]: ./18D72272A.1574D.header: Unable to create 
>> temporary directory
>>
>>
>> Now, at first I thought it was clamd, switched it to clamav and still 
>> getting the same thing.  Any good ideas where to look?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
> 
> 
> Nevermind.  If I had been a smart man and used DEBUGGING ... I would've 
> found that it was looking to use /dev/shm to speed up the processing of 
> the email.
> 
> 
> It seems with the new MailScanner it wants to use /dev/shm.  What I 
> found was that on whitelisted addresses I didn't get this error.  On 
> anything else, I did. So, once I mounted /dev/shm and all is well.
> 


Check that; check_mailscanner looks to see if /dev/shm is available.. if 
it does.. it forces SpamAssassin to use that instead.  Dunno why this 
wasn't being used on the other install I had.

-Matt