On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500 "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not > | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory > | o+r I had this problem with Procmail after installing Cyrus; it > | could not read my ~/.procmailrc > > Was cyrus running as root or as your UID? How does cyrus look for the > file? (probably requires a look at the source) If it tries to list > the directory and then search that list for interesting stuff, then it > would need to be readable. I don't know what stat() requires, but it > probably doesn't need to read the directory. (IIRC stat() is often > used to check the existance of a file before opening it) Shell-like > globbing won't work because that requires listing (reading) the > directory. I would also expect procmail to be run as your UID or else > it's a security hole. I thought perhaps procmail was no longer running as my UID but I could be wrong. I have made some progress today. -- Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]