4.63.8: sa rules and DCC confusion

[Scott Silva]

on 9/25/2007 11:23 AM Jeff A. Earickson spake the following:
> Gang,
> 
> I admit to being a bit rusty here, things always worked before...
> I see no evidence in a MailScanner debug run that either DCC is being 
> used, or that the SA /var/opt state rules are
> being used.  Help....
> 
> I have DCC 1.3.60 running as a daemon from /opt/dcc/bin,
> with the dccifd= socket located in /opt/dcc.  My 
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf file says:
> 
> ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC
> use_dcc 1
> dcc_path    /opt/dcc/bin/dccproc
> dcc_home    /opt/dcc
> endif
> 
> But the MailScanner debug output says:
> 
> [23329] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre
> [23329] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre
> [23329] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v312.pre
> [23329] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v320.pre
> ...
> [23329] dbg: dcc: dccifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found
> [23329] dbg: dcc: dccproc is not available: no dccproc executable found
> [23329] dbg: dcc: dccifd and dccproc are not available, disabling DCC
> 
> I see no evidence that /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> ever gets used.  My MailScanner.conf has:
> 
> SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/opt
> 
> Likewise, I see no evidence that the latest sa-update rules
> in /var/opt/spamassassin/3.002003 ever get used, from the MailScanner
> debug output.
> 
> What have I messed up here?
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
> 
> 
Can your mailscanner run-as-user access the dcc_home directory to get to the 
socket?


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