Thanks Kevin; On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:49 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I have been chasing this around for most of the day. > > > > I am user: bill on a home desktop system that may connect to another > > Linux box sometime in the near but indefinite future. > > > > I keep getting an error at startup that "user clamilt does not exist", > > even after I have configured user as 'bill' or 'root'. > > > > Milter.conf says: > > > > # Run as a selected user (clamd must be started by root). > > # Default: disabled > > #User clamilt > > > > What does it mean? > > It means that your system must have a userid for the name clamilt, as by > default, clamilt will change to this userid after it starts running (so > it doesn't run as root). You must have a valid userid for this user in > your /etc/passwd file. If you installed clamilt from an RPM, it should > have created this userid for you. There are also files and directories > that it must access that need to be accessible to this user. > > > Should the user be enabled or disabled ? > > The userid shouold exist on your system. It doesn't matter what the > userid number is (as long as it is unique). > > > Who is the selected user? root or bill or clamilt? > > see the above, root will start clamilt, then it will change the running > userid to that of the clamilt user. > > > If the user should be clamilt, do I have to create a user? > > It should have happened as a part of installing from the RPM. It didn't happen. There is no clamilt in my passwd file or anywhere else on my computer. I'll remove clamav-milter and re-install. Thanks for your answer. -- Regards Bill
