amavisd will not run

[iztech]

a couple of weeks ago i was able to go through the article ‘spam and virus controls with postfix’ and have a successful install after some trials and tribulation.

looking at the logs i thought that virus control was working but not spamassassin. i posted my logs but i did not get any answers. later i realized that this was because spamassasin was not configured (local.cf).

i scrapped my install and configured postfix with anomy, sa and with rbl i am getting good success. but i still wanted to get back my clamav amavisd install so i tried the article again.

so i ran cpan modules without spamassain…
i am getting an error

warning: you do not have permission to install into ///System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115
Cannot forceunlink /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Net/Cmd.pm: Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/File/Find.pm line 888
…
NOT OK

if anyone can help me here i would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
i have been working on this for 3 weeks.

tia

[iztech]

yes, i did make the mistake of not entering sudo cpan

everything ran and i got an ok but when running amvisd debug i get…

Net::Server 2004/05/12-10:57:44 Couldn’t open pid file “var/amavis/amavisd.pid” [permission denined].\n\n at line 268 in file /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Net/Server.pm
blah, blah Server closing!

please note i did not install Mail::SpamAssassin since it’s already running. i assume if i run it will wipe out my current settings

i am going to read your new article mactroll

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