Milter-greylist

Hi,  
Just a couple of minor points about doing a fresh installation.

Creating and then installing an RPM built from the tgz file 
creates /var/milter-greylist owned by root, however the 
default .conf sets the user to "smmsp".  This stops milter-greylist 
from starting.  The 'user="root"' setting in the init.d/milter-
greylist is either innefective or over-ridden by the .conf file.
It just took me about an hour to work out what the problem was, so 
hoping to make life easier for others.

As a matter of interest, should it be running as smmsp rather than 
root ?

Next, it might be worth mentioning the rpmbuild -tb milter-greylist-
3.0.tgz command option on the website, as it makes it a more 
attractive option to newer Linux users, and to people like myself 
that use Linux a fair bit but like the convenience of RPM's.

The generated .conf file also appears to be an old V1.1 job with a 
reference to the (also now out of date) V2 .conf if you want to see 
more options.  Any chance of getting that updated?

It would be terrific if someone could install this and test it in 
minutes, with easier access to the various .conf options.

Great program!

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:01:42PM -0000, antispamz wrote:
> Creating and then installing an RPM built from the tgz file 
> creates /var/milter-greylist owned by root, however the 
> default .conf sets the user to "smmsp".  This stops milter-greylist 
> from starting.  The 'user="root"' setting in the init.d/milter-
> greylist is either innefective or over-ridden by the .conf file.
> It just took me about an hour to work out what the problem was, so 
> hoping to make life easier for others.

Run configure --with-user=root

> The generated .conf file also appears to be an old V1.1 job with a 
> reference to the (also now out of date) V2 .conf if you want to see 
> more options.  Any chance of getting that updated?

Sure, if someone contribute an update...

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> 
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:01:42PM -0000, antispamz wrote:
> > Creating and then installing an RPM built from the tgz file 
> > creates /var/milter-greylist owned by root, however the 
> > default .conf sets the user to "smmsp".  This stops milter-
greylist 
> > from starting.  The 'user="root"' setting in the init.d/milter-
> > greylist is either innefective or over-ridden by the .conf file.
> > It just took me about an hour to work out what the problem was, 
so 
> > hoping to make life easier for others.
> 
> Run configure --with-user=root

Kind of defeats using rpmbuild -tb though doesn't it?

> > The generated .conf file also appears to be an old V1.1 job with 
a 
> > reference to the (also now out of date) V2 .conf if you want to 
see 
> > more options.  Any chance of getting that updated?
> 
> Sure, if someone contribute an update...

I would, but I am not certain which conf to use as my base to start 
with.

Perhaps it would be better if a developer that knows all this stuff 
could provide theirs minus the personalised lines?

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:01:28 -0000 antispamz <antispamz@...> wrote:

> > > Creating and then installing an RPM built from the tgz file 
> > > creates /var/milter-greylist owned by root, however the 
> > > default .conf sets the user to "smmsp".  This stops milter-greylist 
> > > from starting.  The 'user="root"' setting in the init.d/milter-
> > > greylist is either innefective or over-ridden by the .conf file.
> > > It just took me about an hour to work out what the problem was, so 
> > > hoping to make life easier for others.
> > 
> > Run configure --with-user=root
> 
> Kind of defeats using rpmbuild -tb though doesn't it?

From the next version you will be able to use
rpmbuild --define "build_user smmsp" -tb milter-greylist-3.1.4.tgz

Regards,
Nerijus