[Esa-l] Root owns procmail.log files

[John D. Hardin]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Mikael Blomqvist wrote:

> I just installed the script but all the user logfiles are created
> with root as owner (which makes it hard to write to after that).
> 
> Did I miss some setting? Or is this procmail's fault?

Hrm. Try putting "DROPPRIVS=YES" before the "LOGFILE=xxx" command.

Either that, or have a central logfile, and set "LOGFILE=" at the end
of your /etc/procmailrc file.

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