CentOS - Jun 2007 - ERROR: Unable to create temporary directory on centos 5

Hi all,

i just installed  MailScanner-4.60.8-1.rpm.tar.gz on centos 5 with sendmail
8.13.8.

Whenever I send emails, I get bellow error.


Jun 21 15:33:01 mail MailScanner[3657]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 767
bytes
Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: ERROR: Unable to create temporary
directory
Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jun 21 15:33:03 mail sendmail[3694]: l5LA2wY5003682: to=<test at
mail.csbsl.com>,
ctladdr=<root at mail.csbsl.com> (0/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=local, pri=120305, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent



WHY IS THAT?

Then, I disabled Selinux as follows.

setenfoce 0

Then, Checked again and no such error was given. Worked properly.

I do not want to leave Selinux disable. So could you pls help me to solve
thsi issue ?



-- 
Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
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On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:34 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya
wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> i just installed  MailScanner-4.60.8-1.rpm.tar.gz on centos 5 with
> sendmail 8.13.8.
> 
> Whenever I send emails, I get bellow error. 
> 
> 
> Jun 21 15:33:01 mail MailScanner[3657]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 767 bytes 
> Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: ERROR: Unable to create
> temporary directory
> Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> messages 
> Jun 21 15:33:03 mail sendmail[3694]: l5LA2wY5003682:
> to=<test at mail.csbsl.com>, ctladdr=<root at mail.csbsl.com>
(0/0),
> delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120305, dsn= 2.0.0,
> stat=Sent
> 
> 
> 
> WHY IS THAT? 
> 
> Then, I disabled Selinux as follows. 
> 
> setenfoce 0
> 
> Then, Checked again and no such error was given. Worked properly. 
> 
> I do not want to leave Selinux disable. So could you pls help me to
> solve thsi issue ? 
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sounds like a permissions error on /var/spool/MailScanner
or /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

I use postfix and the user must be able to write to those directories
(in your case, whatever user sendmail runs as...something like smmsp)...

# ls -l /var/spool/MailScanner/
total 8
drwx------ 7 postfix root    4096 Jun 21 09:18 incoming
drwx------ 4 postfix postfix 4096 Jun 14 10:23 quarantine

Your questions might be better directed to MailScanner list

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>