[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

[Jon Carnes]

hmmm, check your processes.  Is something holding open the
/var/log/procmail file?  What happens when you try to open it up and
write to it using something like vi?

The problem could be in spamc.  Did you change the way it runs?  Did you
add some other processes to the server?  Is the spamc process running
out of memory while running?

What happens if you do set the rights: chmod a+w /var/log/procmail

Good Luck 
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:46, 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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