On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:08:14 -0500 (EST), Mike Burger wrote > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > > I have reinstalled the latest version of spamassassin and clamav. I am using > > the clamav plugin and sitewide procmail. Everything works except I cannot find > > how to enable the procmail logfile using this approach. > > > > /etc/procmailrc has > > > > # SpamAssassin procmailrc > > SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail > > LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log > > LOGABSTRACT=all > > COMSAT=no > > VERBOSE=yes > > DROPPRIVS=yes > > > > [snip] > > > > If I leave logfile as above, I get a write logfile error on incoming: > > > > Feb 17 17:24:07 www procmail[30460]: Error while writing to > > "/var/log/procmail.log" > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Feb 17 16:54 procmail.log > > > > which means a permissions error. > > > > How do I find out which user account sitewide procmail uses when processing > > the incoming mail? I suspect that the procmail process does not > > have write permission for the log? I hesitate to make the logfile 777? > > > > Thanks. > > The problem, as I see it, is that Procmail runs as the user whose > mail is being delivered. Therefore, unless user1, user2, etc are > members of the wheel group, they're not going to be able to write > the log file. > > Maybe each user can have a procmail log file...? OK, I did not realize that the sitewide procmail would run as the user whose mail is being processed -- makes sense though. I can set up a group for email users and then give that group write permission to the log. Thanks -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
