Re: Procmail / Directory ownership question

[Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brad Alpert wrote:

> I've searched the procmail lists and can't find a good answer to
> this one.  It's a simple thing but it's stopped me from moving
> forward with a project.
> 
> I have a procmail recipe which I want to use to move mail marked by
> Spamassassin as spam into a directory - "/var/log/spam".  When an
> offending test message encounters the recipe item, an error in
> /var/log/procmail is generated which says "Unable to treat
> /var/log/spam as a directory" and the item gets delivered to the
> default location.
> 
> I am certain that this is a directory ownership/permissions problem.
>  The question I have is this - Who is supposed to own the
> /var/log/spam directory and which permissions should that directory
> have?

It really needs to be a file.  Remove the /var/log/spam directory.  Touch 
/var/log/spam, then make it writable by the user/group needing that 
access.
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