Procmail issue

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Jan 23 21:40:20 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> said:
> It works if I use ${HOME} instead of ${HOMEDIR}.
> 
> It also works if the path is set to /var/log/procmail
> 
> If I log in to the account with the actual recipe, and I echo 'fubar' |
> procmail, that too dumps stuff into the log file.
> 
> So why won't it work when in this recipe:
> 
> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail

Try using a log file in the user's home directory, rather than /var/log.
I suspect that SELinux doesn't allow procmail to write to files all over
the filesystem.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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