Michael Helm <helm(_at_)fionn(_dot_)es(_dot_)net> writes:
Started seeing this in sendmail syslog:
Nov 15 04:23:25 foo procmail[29807]: Enforcing stricter permissions on
"/var/mail/daemon"
Repeatedly, or just once? If it shows up more than once then some other
process is changing the mode or ownership of /var/mail/daemon.
Why is this happening? Why is there even a /var/mail/daemon?
ls -l /var/mail/daemon
-rw------- 1 daemon other 1038 Nov 15 04:22 /var/mail/daemon
Someone/some program is calling "procmail -d daemon" or something like
that. Did you replace /bin/mail with procmail? If so, then calling
"/bin/mail daemon" will cause email to be delivered to daemon
regardless of sendmail aliases. This is one reason I would recommend
against replacing /bin/mail if you can instead just fix the definition
of the local mailer in the sendmail.cf.
Philip Guenther