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I use sendmail as my MTA on SuSE 8.1. After enabling Apache via YaST, I
rebooted my system because of a sound driver problem, and now procmail
does not seem to work.
I have not changed my sendmail.cf since I installed SuSE 8.1 in January.
It was working great until I rebooted today.
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Jerry Feldman
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Hi, Check if you can find any clues in /var/log/mail. Then set VERBOSE=on in .procmailrc and set LOGFILE to a path like e.g. .procmail/log. That file might give you some clue to the cause. You can also try to reconfigure your MTA with the MTA module in YaST, and see if that helps. Jostein On 10.03.03,15:19, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I use sendmail as my MTA on SuSE 8.1. After enabling Apache via YaST, I rebooted my system because of a sound driver problem, and now procmail does not seem to work. I have not changed my sendmail.cf since I installed SuSE 8.1 in January. It was working great until I rebooted today.
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:33:38 +0100
Jostein Berntsen
Hi,
Check if you can find any clues in /var/log/mail.
Then set VERBOSE=on in .procmailrc and set LOGFILE to a path like e.g. .procmail/log. That file might give you some clue to the cause.
You can also try to reconfigure your MTA with the MTA module in YaST, and see if that helps. My .procmailrc has all that accomplished. I've got a rather long set of rules. However I've noticed in /var/log/mail, beginning on March 10th, Mar 10 12:26:21 gaf procmail[1523]: Suspicious rcfile "/home/gaf/.procmailrc"
Unfortunately my procmail log is zero length. I've also restored
.procmailrc back to the previous version, although the only change I
made was after it had apparently stopped working.
And, I reconfigured sendmail with YaST.
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On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:59, Jerry Feldman wrote:
My .procmailrc has all that accomplished. I've got a rather long set of rules. However I've noticed in /var/log/mail, beginning on March 10th, Mar 10 12:26:21 gaf procmail[1523]: Suspicious rcfile "/home/gaf/.procmailrc"
What are the permissions of your rcfile and of your home directory?
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:07:27 +0100
Anders Johansson
What are the permissions of your rcfile and of your home directory? Home directory is rwx for all and .procmailrc:rw owner read ro group and others. Also, .procmailrc is owned by my user id and by my default group.
I am the only user on my system, but I should fix my home directory
permissions, but that is a security issue.
Everything was working until yesterday when I enabled apache. I ended up
rebooting because of some issues with the sound server. I've used this
.procmailrc for a couple of years. The current version has been used for
about one month.
I think what I might need to do is to start from scatch with a fresh
.procmailrc and add my changes a few at a time until I narrow down where
the problem is.
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On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:18, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:07:27 +0100
Anders Johansson
wrote: What are the permissions of your rcfile and of your home directory?
Home directory is rwx for all and .procmailrc:rw owner read ro group and
That's the problem. procmail will refuse to work with those permissions. You must be the only user allowed to write the rcfile, as set by the permissions on both the file itself and on the home directory.
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:21:08 +0100
Anders Johansson
That's the problem. procmail will refuse to work with those permissions. You must be the only user allowed to write the rcfile, as set by the permissions on both the file itself and on the home directory. Yes, it appears to be the problem. I'm not sure why it worked before, but one should be careful with permissions. -- Jerry Feldman
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On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:30 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:21:08 +0100
Anders Johansson
wrote: That's the problem. procmail will refuse to work with those permissions. You must be the only user allowed to write the rcfile, as set by the permissions on both the file itself and on the home directory.
Yes, it appears to be the problem. I'm not sure why it worked before, but one should be careful with permissions.
Procmail will sometimes change permission on a file if it thinks they are not restrictive enough. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/11/03 10:40 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
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The 03.03.11 at 08:59, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Mar 10 12:26:21 gaf procmail[1523]: Suspicious rcfile "/home/gaf/.procmailrc"
It is documented (man procfile): Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc) and either it was group writable or the directory that contained it was group writable (the rc file was not used). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
participants (5)
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Anders Johansson
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Bruce Marshall
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Carlos E. R.
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Jerry Feldman
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Jostein Berntsen