[AMaViS-user] Trouble setting up amavis user in Mac OS 10.3.3

[Donald S. <dse...@co...>]

Hello,

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I am having trouble setting up an amavis user that works.  I am running
postfix+amavis+clamav+spamassassin on a Mac xserve (os 10.3.3).  I have
followed the instructions from the afp548 site and edited the =
daemon_user
and daemon_group (to be "amavis"):

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niutil -create . /users/amavis

niutil -createprop . /users/amavis uid 49

niutil -createprop . /users/amavis gid 49

niutil -createprop . /users/amavis shell /bin/tcsh

niutil -createprop . /users/amavis home /tmp

niutil -createprop . /users/amavis passwd "*"

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niutil -create . /groups/amavis

niutil -createprop . /groups/amavis gid 49

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cp amavisd.conf /etc/

chown root /etc/amavisd.conf

chmod 644 /etc/amavisd.conf

cp amavisd /usr/bin/

chown root /usr/bin/amavisd

chmod 755 /usr/bin/amavisd

mkdir /var/amavis

chown amavis:amavis /var/amavis

chmod 750 /var/amavis

mkdir /var/virusmails

chown amavis:amavis /var/virusmails

chmod 750 /var/virusmails

touch /var/amavis/whitelist_sender

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When I try to run "amavisd debug" as user amavis, I get a permissions =
error.
When I switch to root and run "amavisd debug" I get the following output
showing a "couldn't become gid" error (which seems like the error =
generated
by earlier versions of net::server, but I am running 0.87):

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[DBServer:~] root# amavisd debug

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: starting.  amavisd at DBServer
amavisd-new-20030616-p9, Unicode aware

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Perl version               =
5.008001

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Amavis::Conf        1.15

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Archive::Tar        1.08

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Archive::Zip        1.10

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Compress::Zlib      1.33

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Convert::TNEF       0.17

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Convert::UUlib      1.01

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module DB_File             1.806

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module MIME::Entity        5.404

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module MIME::Parser        5.406

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module MIME::Tools         5.411

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Mail::Header        1.62

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Mail::Internet      1.62

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin  2.63

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Net::Cmd            2.25

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Net::DNS            0.23

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Net::SMTP           2.28

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Net::Server         0.87

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Time::HiRes         1.59

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Module Unix::Syslog        0.99

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Found myself: /usr/bin/amavisd =
-c
/etc/amavisd.conf

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Lookup::SQL code       NOT =
loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Lookup::LDAP code      NOT =
loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: AMCL-in protocol code  loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: SMTP-in protocol code  loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: ANTI-VIRUS code        loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: ANTI-SPAM  code        loaded

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: 2004/04/20-09:56:35
Amavis (type Net::Server::PreForkSimple) starting! pid(8521)

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: Binding to UNIX =
socket
file /var/amavis/amavisd.sock using SOCK_STREAM

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP port
10024 on host 127.0.0.1

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: Setting gid to "49 =
49"

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: 2004/04/20-09:56:35
Couldn't become gid "49" (0)\n\n  at line 481 in file
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Net/Server.pm

Apr 20 09:56:35 DBServer amavisd[8521]: Net::Server: 2004/04/20-09:56:35
Server closing!

[DBServer:~] root#

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If I change the daemon_user to root and the daemon_group to wheel,
everything works great.

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If anyone has a handle on setting up a user for amavis in Mac OS 10.3.3, =
I
would be very grateful for some help.

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Thanks,

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Don.

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Donald Seeberg

IT Administrator

Hampshire Educational Collaborative

97 Hawley Street

Northampton, MA 01060

413-586-4900 x111

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