MailScanner -debug --lint... solved

[Mark Sapiro]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:28:48AM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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> Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> > Hi,
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> >   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.
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> >   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:
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> >   http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2008-March/083395.html
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> >   If I run if from /root (PATH is correct, no ".") I  get:
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> > Cannot create temporary Work Dir /10768. Are the permissions and ownership
> > of  correct? at /usr/share/MailScanner//MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 152
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> >   runnning it from /etc/MailScanner met another problem in a different
> >   position. 
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> >   I found out I had wront permissios on /tmp!!! (chmod 1777 /tmp...)
> >   
> What permissions and ownership did it have before? (when it was broken)
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Note that the permissions on /tmp are not the issue in my case. Mine
are and always have been 1777.

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