[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Tue Oct 22 14:18:52 EDT 2002


s/readable/writable/

Joseph Tate wrote:

> 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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