[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Tue Oct 22 13:46:28 EDT 2002


df -h:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             9.7G  5.7G  3.4G  63% /
/dev/hda1             235M   23M  200M  11% /boot
/dev/sda2             7.4G  6.4G  755M  90% /home
/dev/hda3            1011M   33M  927M   4% /tmp
/dev/hda2             7.8G  4.0G  3.4G  54% /var

What permissions are supposed to be on /var/log/procmail .  Isn't that 
handled through the ksyslogd daemon?  It's currently only readable by root.

Joseph

Jon Carnes wrote:

>df -h
>
>Could you be out of space? If not, then a rights issue perhaps?
>
>On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:11, Joseph Tate wrote:
>  
>
>>I've set up spamassassin as per the spamassassin howto, and added a 
>>procmail rule to filter spam to a separate IMAP folder.  It was all 
>>working nicely, but today, it's ceased to function.  It's a 
>>"non-parrot".  Now it's all mail.  The bounced message states:
>>
>>The original message was received at Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:09:02 -0400
>>from mail2.mi-corporation.com [209.116.71.23]
>>
>>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>><jtate at dragonstrider.com>
>>    (reason: service unavailable)
>>
>>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"
>>procmail: Program failure (69) of "/usr/bin/spamc"
>>procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>>554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
>>
>>
>>Any ideas?  I've never used procmail before.  /var/log/maillog has 288 
>>'procmail[5969]: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"' messages, 
>>which I feel are related.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Joseph
>>
>>    
>>
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