Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to setup Dale Walsh's amavis-stats 0.1.22
> 
> what the proper way to set up access to /var/log/maillog, I'm getting
> 'permission denied'
> 
> -rw-------  1 root root   103472334 Nov  2 04:13 /var/log/maillog

This means only root (and programs running as root) can read or write to
the file.

> # amavis-stats debug
> Nov  2 23:33:38 Amavis-Stats[13230]: starting. Amavis-Stats-0.1.22
> (2006-01-12) Unicode aware, LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> Nov  2 23:33:38 Amavis-Stats[13230]: user = apache, EUID: 48 (48);   
> group = apache, EGID: 48 48 48 (48 48 48)

Neither the apache user nor the group can access the maillog because of
the permissions on the file.  You need to give apache read-only access
to the maillog.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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