Rodney Baker wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:37:02 Per Jessen wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Hi all. I run a local mail server with a fairly standard setup:
Fetchmail -> sendmail ->procmail -> spamd -> Maildir -> dovecot IMAP.
Everything worked fine until around 1345 local time Sunday. Ever since then, fetchmail has been dumping all mail into /var/spool/mail/<username> and there it stays. The rest of the chain isn't firing. procmail is configured to write to a log file in my home directory (pm.log) and that is not being written.
Nothing has been written to /var/log/mail since August 28th (when I upgraded to oS 11.4) so that is no help.
Is your syslog daemon running?
Er, no. Damn!
/etc/init.d/syslog restart reports: Shutting down syslog services done Starting syslog servicessyslog-ng: Error in setgid(); group='wheel', gid='10', error='Operation not permitted' startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/syslog-ng: 1
failed
Hmmm...now I've got to figure out why *that* is happening. Get syslog running and I might be closer to getting some answers from /var/log/mail. Good catch.
I've been bitten once or twice myself :-( See if /var/log/audit/audit.log might have any hints about syslog-ng.
I'd appreciate any pointers as to where to look next. Fetchmail is working fine, as I said, but nothing gets past /var/spool/mail/<username>. When it was working fine, nothing went into this directory, let alone stayed there.
Where would it normally go? Any info in the fetchmail log?
No - nothing useful - only messages about unsecured connections to the ISP's mail server (which is not unexpected because I'm connecting via POP3 on the standard port).
And the mail - where would it normally go instead of /var/spool/mail/<username>? It sounds as if fetchmail is defaulting to the latter, possibly due to an access problem (wild guessing). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org