Re: Procmail / Directory ownership question

["Brad Alpert" <balpert FortBradford com>]

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brad Alpert wrote:
>
>> I've searched the procmail lists and can't find a good answer to
>> this one.  It's a simple thing but it's stopped me from moving
>> forward with a project.
>>
>> I have a procmail recipe which I want to use to move mail marked
>> by Spamassassin as spam into a directory - "/var/log/spam".
>> When an offending test message encounters the recipe item, an
>> error in
>> /var/log/procmail is generated which says "Unable to treat
>> /var/log/spam as a directory" and the item gets delivered to the
>> default location.
>>
>> I am certain that this is a directory ownership/permissions
>> problem.
>>  The question I have is this - Who is supposed to own the
>> /var/log/spam directory and which permissions should that
>> directory have?
>
> It really needs to be a file.  Remove the /var/log/spam directory.
>  Touch  /var/log/spam, then make it writable by the user/group
> needing that  access.
> --
> Mike Burger

No, it really needs to be a directory.  I've been using procmail
successfully for a long time time, without tagged mail going to
various files.  The requirement for the current project, however,
requires that mail tagged as spam go to a directory for subsequent
processing.

So, how do I do that?  It has got to be ownership/permissions.

Brad