Problem with 4.80.7 rpm install. SOLVED

[Jules Field]

You are an absolute star! Well found.

I will release 4.80.10 right now to fix this one.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 20/06/2010 15:55, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On Thu Jun  3 21:17:44 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>    
>> My system is CentOS 5. I was running MailScanner 4.80.4. In my
>> configuration I have
>>
>> Run As User = postfix
>> Run As Group = postfix
>>
>> I downloaded
>> <http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.80.7-1.rpm.tar.gz>,
>> unpacked it and ran the install.sh script as usual.
>>
>> MailScanner --lint
>>
>> ran normally, but when I ran
>>
>> service MailScanner restartms
>>
>> children died during initialization with
>>
>> Jun  3 12:35:56 sbh16 MailScanner[22147]: Cannot create temporary Work
>> Dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/22147. Are the permissions and
>> ownership of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming correct?
>>
>> This would then spawn another child which would die the same way.
>>
>> It seems the install process (run as root) changed the owner of
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming from postfix to root.
>>
>> chown postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/
>>
>> fixed the problem, but the owner shouldn't have been changed in the
>> first place.
>>      
>
> The same thing occurred when I just upgraded from 4.80.7 to 4.80.9.
>
> This time I was able to determine that the change in ownership occurred
> when I ran
>
>    service MailScanner restartms
>
> > From that, I was able to determine that the problem is in
> /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner. Line 56 is
>
> RANAS=`$CMD -e "print
> MailScanner::Config::QuickPeek('$MSCONF','RunAsUser')"`
>
> and should be
>
> RUNAS=`$CMD -e "print
> MailScanner::Config::QuickPeek('$MSCONF','RunAsUser')"`
>
> i.e. it sets RANAS, not RUNAS.
>
> In detail what happens is /etc/init.d/MailScanner sets RUNAS=root and
> then sources /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner.
>
> /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner erroneously sets RANAS and then later does
>
> if [ "x$RUNAS" = "x" ]; then
>    RUNAS=postfix
> fi
>
> but RUNAS was previously set to root by /etc/init.d/MailScanner so it
> remains set as root.
>
>    

Jules

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