Turns out there is a bug in the 3.15.2 source. The bug drops root privs
early when Maildir support is the default. I'm waiting to hear back from
Philip to confirm things, but you can see the later messages in this thread
for the details of the bug and the work around.
Thanks,
Derek
My log file has root ownership and root group assignment and 646
rights. Can't you just 'touch' the file and set the rights? Or am I
missing something?
Derek Battams wrote:
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:21:07AM -0500, Philip Guenther wrote:
Derek Battams <derek(_at_)battams(_dot_)ca> writes:
I've now even rebuilt an RPM from my distro's (Trustix Secure
Linux) source RPM of v3.15.2 and I get the same results, yet on
my production system the suid procmail binary works as expected.
The only thing I
After reading this post, it might seem like I've tried the same
thing on my production system and it's working - this is not the
case. I have not touched my production system (seems obvious I'm
sure, but the way I wrote the original post makes it sound like I
did change my production system).
Some distributions, in the past, have configured procmail to look
for the global procmailrc in other locations. It's unlikely to be
the problem here, but what's the output of
strings /usr/bin/procmail | grep procmailrc
That should normally output
/etc/procmailrc
$HOME/.procmailrc
/etc/procmailrcs/
but it's something to check.
Procmail is trying to create the log in /etc/ but it produces an error
saying "Error writing to /etc/procmail.log". The reason is that it is
trying to write the file as the recipient rather than root (even
though the procmail binary is suid root). If I change the location of
the logfile to a place where regular users can write (/tmp) then it
creates the logfile fine, but again it creates it as owned by the
recipient not root. So to answer your question, yes procmail is
looking for the global procmailrc file in /etc/.
{10:36am} [derek(_at_)penguin] (bin)>strings procmail|grep procmailrc
/etc/procmailrc
$HOME/.procmailrc
/etc/procmailrcs/
procmailrc
procmailrc%s for LINEBUF for uid "%lu"
Thanks,
Derek
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