[PLUG] Error writing to /var/log/procmail

[Wil Cooley]

Also Sprach Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:22:26AM PDT
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> > Postfix isn't running as root, is it?
> 
> Matt,
> 
>   Sigh. No. It's running as user postfix. No wonder it can't write to a file
> owned by root. D'oh! And the log file is writable only by the owner, not the
> other members of the group 'mail'.

And procmail runs SGID mail (at least, it /should/ be), so
since the file is already group mail, just chmod g+w.

Wil
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