* Brett Bartick (bartick(_at_)nomurany(_dot_)com) [000112 09:38]:
I have been runnning procmail for sometime on various Sun Solaris 2.X
machines. I never had the need to run procmail as root before. Now, when
I try to run procmail for User root, my email is ending up in the mail
spool directory for owner "daemon". The strange thing is that I have
LOGFILE set, but nothing gets written. Any hints as to what I'm doing
wrong?
If I recall correctly, procmail refuses to run as root. It's for your
protection, so that you cannot accidently execute something as root and
smash your system to bits...
I don't recall if there is a way to stop this behavior -- regardless,
you don't want to run it as root. forward root's mail to someone else
(I like oper) and use procmail with this user.
jon
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