[NTLUG:Discuss] Procmail

Richard Humphrey richard at multicam.com
Mon Jul 7 13:29:16 CDT 2003


/etc/procmailrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          531 Jul  4 11:29 procmailrc

/var/log/messages
-rw-------    1 root     root         5049 Jul  7 13:21 messages

/var/log/procmail.log
-rw-------    1 root     root        78111 Jul  4 10:50 procmail.log

-----Original Message-----
From: Rev. wRy [mailto:slot0k at pogox.org]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:29 PM
To: Richard Humphrey
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Procmail


Richard Humphrey wrote:
> Well that is exactly my problem. I have the following in my
> /etc/procmailrc but it doesnt work right because procmail is running
as
> non-root user.

I'm just wondering who owns /etc/procmailrc and what your perms are on
/var/log/messages.

May or may not be anything.

One other thing to try might be to change the logfile (for the time
being) to someplace that's world writeable (/tmp comes to mind).

Ry




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