MailScanner -debug --lint... solved

[Julian Field]

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Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   While writing this message I found the misconfiguration that caused it. I
>   post the message anyhow since there is another message written 1 month ago
>   with the same problem that was left unanswered.
>
>   ----
>
>   I'm trying to debug a problem so I used --debug --lint discovering a
>   different behaviour according to the dir I run it from. I already saw a
>   message noticing the same thing:
>
>   http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2008-March/083395.html
>
>   If I run if from /root (PATH is correct, no ".") I  get:
>
> Cannot create temporary Work Dir /10768. Are the permissions and ownership
> of  correct? at /usr/share/MailScanner//MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 152
>
>   runnning it from /etc/MailScanner met another problem in a different
>   position. 
>
>   I found out I had wront permissios on /tmp!!! (chmod 1777 /tmp...)
>   
What permissions and ownership did it have before? (when it was broken)

Jules

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