I have a .procmailrc file set up for root on our mail server, and everything
seemed to be working fine with it until I upgraded to procmail 3.12. I've
also just upgraded to sendmail 8.9.3, but that was from 8.9.1, so I don't
think my problem is a result of sendmail paranoia.
My problem is this: Now, procmail is not writing to $LOGFILE, which is set to
/.procmail-log. It's reporting to syslog
Mar 31 09:59:55 suw3svr01 procmail[23778]: Error while writing to
"/.procmail-log"
Permissions of / and .procmailrc on the server:
drwxr-xr-x 56 root other 1024 Mar 30 09:04 /
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 7722 Mar 26 13:53 /.procmailrc
.procmailrc is read-only because it is under RCS control.
Variable settings in .procmailrc:
SHELL = /bin/sh
PATH = /admin/procmail/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb
ORGMAIL = /var/mail/root
MAILDIR = /
LOGFILE = /.procmail-log
LOGABSTRACT = "all"
The / partition is not full.
The procmail(1) manpage says
Error while writing to "x"
Nonexistent subdirectory, no write
permission, pipe died or disk full.
I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?
jcl
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