On 28 October 1998, Reid Turner <cturner(_at_)advtech(_dot_)uswest(_dot_)com>
wrote:
The procmail man page suggests this is an acceptable place to ask this
question. So, here goes ...
I get the following messages on all of my terminal windows, every
hour. I'd like to fix whatever is wrong, or at least make this
message stop:
Message from syslogd(_at_)tiger at Wed Oct 28 13:33:21 1998 ...
tiger procmail[826]: Couldn't rename bogus "/var/spool/mail/root" into
"/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.x6m1"
Message from syslogd(_at_)tiger at Wed Oct 28 13:33:23 1998 ...
tiger procmail[828]: Couldn't rename bogus "/var/spool/mail/root" into
"/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.x6m1"
Message from syslogd(_at_)tiger at Wed Oct 28 13:33:25 1998 ...
tiger procmail[830]: Couldn't rename bogus "/var/spool/mail/root" into
"/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.x6m1"
I haven't been able to figure out why I'm getting this message.
Another machine has the much the same configuration and doesn't get
it. They both nfs mount /var/spool/mail/root from a third machine on
which neither has root access.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This may have many causes, but it most likely means procmail tried
to deliver a message to root's mailbox and it couldn't, due to "root
squash". You can fix that either by allowing root access over NFS
(you _don't_ want to do that...), or by aliasing root on the machines
mounting the mail directory to root at the machine exporting it, in your
system-wide alias file.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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