Re: [AMaViS-user] Re: amavis-stats-0.1.19 released

On Dec 8, 2005, at 06:15 , Matthias Keller wrote:

> Joachim Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2005 10:48 schrieb Dale Walsh:
>>
>>> amavis-stats (0.1.19) stable; urgency=recommended
>>>
>>
>> Hello Dale,
>> after some problems I was able to compile it:
>>
>> 1. gzcat not found while configure.
>> I couldn't find it in my distro (SuSE-Linux 9.2),
>> couldn't find it at gnu page.
>> I linked zcat to gzcat, works.
>>
>> 2. configure finds user "www" in /etc/passwd,
>> but in fact the user is "wwwrun".
>> So "make" complains about missing user "www" later.
>> I used --with-user, but I thing configure does wrong parsing.
>>
> I noticed those two things too on my suse 10
> I'm using the user vscan and group www now to solve the problem
> below: (use --enable-id-check to solve that bug with www)
>
>> Now it's running, but in debug mode I see
>>
>> parseFile(/var/log/mail, 0, 3393576)
>> ERROR : Could not open file /var/log/mail: Permission denied
>>
>> Well, I am logging amavisd-new to /var/log/mail to keep
>> all info in one place.
>> /var/log/mail is rw-r----- on all my systems, owned by root:root.
>> How to manage that?
>>
> Well you could probably change ownership of /var/log/mail to vscan
> to have a better separation I'm logging amavisd-new to /var/log/
> amavisd.log and this one is rw-r----- vscan:root which allows my
> amavis-stats to read it.
>
> btw.. i didn't like the default install paths of it so if you want
> it to install to a (in my opinion) nicer destination like
> /usr/share/amavis-stats/ (for php and config)
> /var/lib/amavis-stats/ (for rrd stuff)
> etc, feel free to use my configure statement:
>
> ./configure --enable-id-check --with-user=vscan --mandir=/usr/share/
> man --datadir=/usr/share \
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sbindir=/sbin --prefix=/
> usr/share/amavis-stats

..configure --enable-id-check --with-user=vscan --with-group=vscan --
prefix=/usr \
--mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc

> make
> make install
>
> then, make sure /var/lib/amavis-stats is owned by vscan, including
> all files that might exist
>
> on my suse i also had the problem of a not-so-very-nice layout
> because of another font than expected. If you got that problem too
> I can send you instructions how to correct it - at least it works
> with my rrdtool 1.2.11 which is used as an external command (not
> compiled into php)
>
> Matt
>
>
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