[NTLUG:Discuss] Procmail

[MadHat]

so, what group is the user in?  do an 'id' to find out.  
Add the users that you want to be able to write to the file to the group
'mail'.


On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:31, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> Also meant to post this.
> 
> /var/spool/mail/sharedspam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Humphrey
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> 
> /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
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> -----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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