On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:41:41AM -0700, Professional Software Engineering
wrote:
All this does is tells us that redhat thinks procmail is installed because
the package manager says so. A better indication that it is installed (AND
that there isn't a conflicting copy) is to run procmail itself - verifying
that the MTA configured invocation path matches the one true copy. If you
inadvertently delete the procmail binary, I'll betcha the rpm will still
claim it is installed, and if you had a manually installed copy sitting
someplace, it wouldn't be noted in the package manager either.
Which he can verify with "rpm -V procmail". This will tell him if the files
that are included with the package are still where they're supposed to be, and
their permissions have not been mucked with. It will not, of course, say
anything about if there is another copy installed somewhere, or if Sendmail is
configured to use it. ("rpm -V sendmail" should answer that. The default
Redhat configuration of Sendmail uses the default procmail as the LDA. Again,
of course, if the configuration is changed, all it can tell you is that the
file has been altered, not how.)
The LDA (procmail) needs to run as root. setuid procmail to root.
More likely his sendmail config has been altered such that sendmail is not
running as the user with permission to write to the spool (and thus procmail
isn't), or the spool dir has the wrong permissions. His post didn't tell us
who owned the spool dir or it's permissions, only the contents of the dir.
In a default Redhat install, DefaultUser should be 8:12. UID 8 and GID 12 are
both "mail", /var/spool/mail should be root:mail 775. Of course, these are all
Sendmail issues, not procmail. Your original thesis: that procmail is not
being invoked by or as a user with the correct permissions to write to the
spool, still stands.
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