procmail, day 2

[Gerry Doris]

> On Friday 05 April 2002 01:54, toylet.linux[?p???N] wrote:
>> procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored
>

snip...

>> procmail: Lock failure on "/var/log/msgid.lock"
>
> I'd say that /var/log is where /etc/procmailrc wants to write lockfiles
>  (judging by this error)

I think you'll find that you don't have permission to write to /var/log.
Change it to write to somewhere that you actually have permission.

>
>> formail: Couldn't open "/var/log/msgid.cache"
>
> and I'd say it wants to keep the cache in /var/log as well.

same as above.

Gerry

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