[gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"

[gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"

[Michael Sullivan]

What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be?  I get a
log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that
exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the
error message).  All the error emails contain "procmail:  Error while
writing to '/var/log/procmail'" and I can't figure out why.  Here's the
details on /var/log/procmail:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 10 17:09 /var/log/procmail

Please help!

P.S.  Is the mailing list down?  I haven't gotten much of anything from
it in the past couple of days...



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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"

[William Kenworthy]

Depending on how its set up, procmail will run with the permissions of
the user/script/mailer calling it.  Maybe postfix, or individiual users
etc.

Your logfile is owned by root, and write only root so thats probably
where the problem lies.

BillK

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 08:44 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be?  I get a
> log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that
> exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the
> error message).  All the error emails contain "procmail:  Error while
> writing to '/var/log/procmail'" and I can't figure out why.  Here's the
> details on /var/log/procmail:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 10 17:09 /var/log/procmail
> 
> Please help!
> 
> P.S.  Is the mailing list down?  I haven't gotten much of anything from
> it in the past couple of days...
> 
> 
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"

[Rumen Yotov]

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On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 08:44 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be?  I get a
> log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that
> exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the
> error message).  All the error emails contain "procmail:  Error while
> writing to '/var/log/procmail'" and I can't figure out why.  Here's the
> details on /var/log/procmail:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 10 17:09 /var/log/procmail
> 
> Please help!
> 
> P.S.  Is the mailing list down?  I haven't gotten much of anything from
> it in the past couple of days...
> 
> 
> 
Hi,
The list is working normally. Check your procmail config & logs.
Not receiving mails might be related to problems with procmail.
Not using procmail, sorry.
Rumen

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