Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > 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. > Now all you have to do is remember to limit your posts to 72 or so columns.
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