Re: Newbie question

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 12), Satyr said:
> My apologies, as I know this must have been asked before. I did look
> through the archive but didn't find anything relevant.  I am trying to
> install spamass-milter to a RH 8.0 install. This is the steps I have
> taken so far;
> 
> 1.  I installed spamassassin from the rpm on the install disks.  
> 2.  I downloaded spamass-milter.0.1.3a and compiled and install it as
> per the README. 
> 3. I moved the spamass-milter.redhat.rc script to
> /etc/init.d/spamass-milter.  So that it would start correctly. :-(
> 4. added the plugin line in the README file to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> and then ran the make command to rebuild sendmail.cf.
> 5. While trying to troubleshoot the deamon, I noticed I didn't have
> anything in /etc/sysconfig and the start up script refers to it;
> 
> SM_EXTRA_FLAGS=
> [ -x /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter ] && . /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter
> 
> Although the make install didn't put anything in the /etc/sysconfig
> directory and this seems to be where I am falling down.  As the deamon
> doesn't start;

/etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter is an optional file.  You can override
SM_SOCKET and SM_EXTRA_FLAGS with it.
 
>  address@hidden sysconfig]# service spamass-milter start
> Starting spamass-milter: execvp: No such file or directory
>                                                            [FAILED]

The redhat.rc script expects spamass-milter to be in
/usr/sbin/spamass-milter, but doesn't ensure that /usr/sbin is in the
PATH.  That means when it comes time to start it with the daemon
command, it can fail.  Try this patch:

Index: spamass-milter-redhat.rc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/spamass-milt/spamass-milt/contrib/spamass-milter-redhat.rc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 spamass-milter-redhat.rc
--- spamass-milter-redhat.rc    17 Jan 2003 20:53:04 -0000      1.3
+++ spamass-milter-redhat.rc    13 Feb 2003 02:23:48 -0000
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
 
 [ -x /usr/sbin/spamass-milter ] || exit 0
-PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
+PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
 
 RETVAL=0
 

This rc script is intended to be used within an rpm-built package, so
if you built and installed it manually, you may have to replace
/usr/sbin with /usr/local/sbin (on lines 28 and 29).

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        Dan Nelson
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