[Esd-l] Procmail fails on user .procmailrc since server upgrades

[Chris Payne]

Hello everyone,  I have searched Google for any possible solutions to a 
procmail problem, and even read the entire procmail faq. I have 
accidentally damaged a new installation of sendmail/procmail.

A newly built Slackware linux email server, running a Dual-PIII 1.0 Ghz 
on 2.4.x kernel(SMP) with 240 GB of Raid 5 array and 1.0 GB RAM.

* procmail v3.15.2
* sendmail v8.12.10
* various custom procmail filters
* Spambouncer
* John Hardins mail sanitizer

Ok,  here is where the trouble starts.  After a fresh installation of 
Slackware 9.1, the critical resource files from our old Slackware 7.0 
server were untarred onto the new box.(/home/users, /var/spool/mail/*, 
/etc/passwd, etc)  

Sendmail and Procmail refused to run.  Sendmail is a newer version than 
what we were running prior and it requires that user and group "smmsp" 
exist. 

I followed the steps in the sendmail docs to recreate and reassociate the 
groups and  priviledges for smmsp and voila the mail server works! 
Servicing both incoming and outgoing mail very well.  

The GLOBAL /etc/procmailrc processes fine, but now we see that the  
/home/user/.procmailrc scripts fail miserably with ExitCode# 71 (unable 
to fork).   Assume this means unable to become user?

I have checked the file permissions against another fresh install of 
Slackware 9.1 on yet another new server, but have yet to find any 
dissimilarities which are the cause of Procmail to fail on local user 
.procmailrc files.

Are there any possible suggestions?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,




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Chris Payne
Network Administrator
Physical Resources Dept, University of Guelph
cpayne at pr.uoguelph.ca
Tel:  (519) 824-4120 x52882
Fax: (519) 837-0581