Re: global maildrop log file?

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 06:59:36 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Bob Bernstein writes:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 09:17:17PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > Are these users members of the "users" group, which is required
> > for write access to this file?
>
> Yes.
>
> There are error messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> "temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to
> create log file."
>
> I note that this error occurs whether or not the needed logfile is
> already there.
>
> I've changed the sought-after "global" logfile to:
> "/var/log/maildroplog" where ls -l for that file is:
> -rw-rwxr-- 1 root users 0 Feb 16 23:49 maildroplog.
>
> I wonder if I should have a user other than root own that logfile in
> /var/log?

This shouldn't be complicated to figure out. There's nothing unusual or  
bizarre going on here. A process either can or cannot write to a file based  
on the file permissions. The file listed above is writable by root, or by  
the group "users". If maildrop can't write to it, then its process doesn't  
meet either requirement.

The easiest way to see what permissions maildrop runs as is to change  
logfile to point to some file in tmp, do a test delivery, and see with which  
permissions maildrop is going to create the new log file in /tmp as.

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