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Re: [milter-greylist] run it as smmsp or root?

2005-02-04 by H Li

--- Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:00:12AM -0800, H Li
> wrote:
> > I installed milter_greylist 1.6 on my fc3 linux
> > system,  It looks running well.  My question is:
> > should I run it as root or as smmsp?  Currently, I
> run
> > it as root. I tried to run it as smmsp, but it
> seems
> > that it does not do anything.  
> 
> It's because it can't write anymore to the dump
> file, which is
> owned by root because you already ran
> milter-greylist as root.
> 
> > What should I do if I want to run it as smmsp in
> > addition to uncomment the line 
> > #user "smmsp"
> > in the config file greylist.conf?  

Then, can I just change the ownershihp of greylist.db
to smmsp to run it as smmsp?  Do I need to change the
ownership of milter-greylist.sock?  or should I stop
it first, delete the db and sock files, then start it?

Thanks!

Harvey

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