[Pymilter] annoying errors and explanations

Eric S. Johansson esj at harvee.org
Thu Apr 15 08:53:08 EDT 2004


Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> started testing and the milter process starts up fine and runs fine. 
> But, sendmail tells me:
> 
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1644: Xmilter: 
> local socket name /tmp/camram/pythonsock unsafe: World writable directory
...

> 
> in the end, sendmail is still sick about something masquerading as a 
> world writable directory.

it was complaining about /tmp.

so, the real lesson is: don't use /tmp for transient fifos like 
everybody else if you are using sendmail.  Not sure where I'm going to 
put them for real but for now /var/camram works.

---eric






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