Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:43, Peter Hardy wrote: > Basically, your fetchmail has been configured to refuse to write to > group-writable directories. Seems the only solution is to twiddle the > config and build yourself a new package from source. Or, and I think I like this version better, only allo

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:29, Shaun Oliver wrote: > that is. and for good reason. it's shared on a samba network with other > windows machines because I want to be able to transfer files between all > these machines. The point of jaq's question is that: On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:10, Shaun Oliver w

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:35:11PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > home directory is group writeable because I have requirements for it to be > so. Can you find a way around that? If not, you're out of luck unless you patch procmail's source and rebuild. From the procmail man page (which, BTW, ex

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Shaun Oliver
there ain't any .forward.hogwarts or .forward in my home directory and the home directory is group writeable because I have requirements for it to be so. -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~bl

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Shaun Oliver snipped any useful quotes: >that is. and for good reason. it's shared on a samba network with other >windows machines because I want to be able to transfer files between all >these machines. so don't you think that's where the error message is coming fro

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Shaun Oliver
that is. and for good reason. it's shared on a samba network with other windows machines because I want to be able to transfer files between all these machines. -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:10:38PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > Jul 6 18:00:06 hogwarts sm-mta[9843]: i668056o009841: forward > /usr/home/shaun_oliver/.forward.hogwarts: Group writable directory > Jul 6 18:00:06 hogwarts sm-mta[9843]: i668056o009841: forward > /usr/home/shaun_oliver/.forward:

Re: [SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Shaun Oliver wrote: >Jul 6 18:00:06 hogwarts sm-mta[9843]: i668056o009841: forward >/usr/home/shaun_oliver/.forward.hogwarts: Group writable directory >I don't have a directory called .forward nore a file of that name. What about /usr/home/shaun_oliver? is that gro

[SLUG] procmail errors.

2004-07-06 Thread Shaun Oliver
Hi, just thought I'd give slackware 10.0 a whirl and came across this problem. I've just built spamassassin from source and installed it how I want it and have found this problem with procmail. *SNIP* Jul 6 18:00:06 hogwarts sm-mta[9843]: i668056o009841: forward /usr/home/shaun_oliver/.forward