Errors in procmail.log

["help@nantucket.net" <he...@nantucket.net>]

Hey all, posed this question a week ago, never got an answer, so Im trying
again.  Redhat and Sendmail and the procmail get this occasionally:

mkdir .: Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 825
procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
procmail: default rcfile is not an absolute path

Why is it trying to mkdir ./?

Some users do not have home directories and it does create them fine on it's
own, but why would it try to make on ./ here?

Re: Errors in procmail.log

["help@nantucket.net" <he...@nantucket.net>]

Well, the first thing ive done is upgrat from SA 2.4x to 2.64.  That error
is gone, though another one comes up just as frequently:

Cannot write to x/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied
Failed to create default user preference file x/.spamassassin/user_prefs
procmail: default rcfile is not an absolute path

Now it would seem that perhaps it's trying to make a user folder for the
user "x".  I cant find anyone sending to this user, ever.  Is there
somewhere that this message to "x" is queued up?  It's very odd.



> From: Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:59:49 -0400
> To: "help@nantucket.net" <he...@nantucket.net>
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Errors in procmail.log
> 
> At 11:34 AM 9/20/2004, help@nantucket.net wrote:
>> Hey all, posed this question a week ago, never got an answer, so Im trying
>> again.  Redhat and Sendmail and the procmail get this occasionally:
>> 
>> mkdir .: Permission denied at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 825
>> procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
>> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>> procmail: default rcfile is not an absolute path
>> 
>> Why is it trying to mkdir ./?
>> 
>> Some users do not have home directories and it does create them fine on it's
>> own, but why would it try to make on ./ here?
> 
> Do any system users (ie: nobody, mail, apache, etc) have home directories
> of / ?
> 
> 
> 

Re: Errors in procmail.log

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 11:34 AM 9/20/2004, help@nantucket.net wrote:
>Hey all, posed this question a week ago, never got an answer, so Im trying
>again.  Redhat and Sendmail and the procmail get this occasionally:
>
>mkdir .: Permission denied at
>/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 825
>procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
>procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>procmail: default rcfile is not an absolute path
>
>Why is it trying to mkdir ./?
>
>Some users do not have home directories and it does create them fine on it's
>own, but why would it try to make on ./ here?

Do any system users (ie: nobody, mail, apache, etc) have home directories 
of / ?