James, > > If Mac OS X is missing a setrgid(), I believe it can be avoided > > if amavisd is started as the final user (vscan/amavis) instead > > of starting it as root: su vscan -c 'amavisd'
> I tried: > sudo su amavisd -c '/usr/local/sbin/amavisd debug' > and it started! I'm glad. > (told me it couldn't find SpamAssassin, so I had to install that. (I'm > not going to use SpamAssassin, so don't know why I have to install it, > but anyway.... tried installing SA via cpan, but it had too many > errors and would not install. I then downloaded the source and was > able to install it) If you don't need spam checking, it can be disabled entirely: @bypass_spam_checks_maps = (1); This way SpamAssassin won't even be compiled/loaded into memory. > Next step is to integrate it with Postfix (using the supplied > readme.postfix), which seems straightforward, and then to get it > scanning with Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac (which uses the 'sweep' > command). If your traffic is anything more than minimal, the 'sweep' command-line scanner will likely be quite slow. See if you can install Sophie on your platform - it is a daemon wrapper around the same Sophos library as used by sweep. Btw, see also my 'sophos-ide-update' for reliably updating the Sophos viruses database: http://www.ijs.si/software/sophos-ide-update/ Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
