On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:10:18 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote > Mike Vanecek wrote: > > >I am reinstalling spamassassin. I have main.cf to call procmail > >(mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail). I have /etc/procmail set with > > > ><snip> > > > > >Outgoing mail is not filtered and incoming mail is filtered. However, I am > >getting 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 > > > >As what user does procmail run? I suspect that the procmail process does not > >have write permission for the log? Other than not logging, is there an easy > >workaround? > > > > > Procmail changes to run as whichever user is receiving the email. > My procmail logs all go to ~/Procmail/log: > > [benjamin@www benjamin]$ ls -alh /home/benjamin/Procmail/log > -rw------- 1 benjamin benjamin 160 Feb 24 07:12 > /home/benjamin/Procmail/log > > The appropriate entries from my .procmailrc (which I have a default > in /etc/skel) PMDIR=$HOME/Procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log > > HTH, Yes it does, thank you. Rather than have a procmail log for each user, I have a every user group which has write permission to one log file. That way I only need to look at a single log. I normally do not run log except when debugging. Thanks again. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
