Re: exit 0 and not write anything to stderr possible?

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:00:31PM -0800, Professional Software Engineering 
wrote:
> At 21:34 2003-02-06 +0000, Nuno Teixeira did say:
>
> >    Hello to all,
> >
> >    For a long time that I use mutt/fetchnail/procmail without any
> >    problems. Today I decide to give a try to getmail. I've configure it to
> >    pipe to procmail and it gives the error:
> >
> >    ===
> >    getmail started for user(_at_)domain(_dot_)bogus:110
> >      POP3 greeting:  +OK
> >      POP3 user response:  +OK
> >      POP3 PASS response:  +OK
> >      POP3 stat response:  1 messages, 614 octets
> >      POP3 list response:  +OK
> >      msg #1/1 : len 614 ... retrieved  Delivery error (command
> >    "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d user" exited 0 but wrote to stderr
> >    (procmail: [82414] Thu Feb  6 21:31:07 2003
> >    procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all"
> >    procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log"
> As a rule, I assign a LOGFILE _BEFORE_ I set things like LOGABSTRACT and 
> VERBOSE.  But hey, that's just me.
>
> Where do you figure procmail will emit logging information to before you've 
> specified a LOGFILE?  You get _one_ guess.
>
> >    procmail: Opening "/var/log/procmail.log"))
> What user is this all running as?  Should just any user be permitted to 
> write to files in /var/log/ ?
>
> ---
>  Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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    Hi,
    
    Only root have write permision to /var/log. I run my system as a normal 
    user but I have configured all my personal logs to go to /var/log:
    
    [example:]
    - touch /var/log/procmail.log (as root)
    - chown me:mygroup /var/log/procmail.log (as root)
    - execute as a normal user fetchmail, procmail, etc.
    
    In this way all my programs log to /var/log with their permissions 
    without problems.
 
    
    Bye,
    
                Nuno Teixeira
    
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