Re: Procmail exception

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 07:29, Kapil Khanna wrote:
> This is what i am seeing in the /var/log/maillog
> Feb 28 04:01:04 localhost procmail[6519]: Error while writing to
> "/root/.procmail/log"
> Has anybody seen this before?
> What surprises me is that there is no directory called .procmail under root.
> There can be a .procmail file in user specific directories to override default
> behavior. However thats a file and not a directory. What is procmail confused
> about and what i am doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> --Kapil

What if you create that directory and an empty log file and then see
what it dumps in there?

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