On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we > keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail, > procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can > access /var/log to keep its logs. Debian's legendary paranoia about who > can write a log in /var/log has long since forced most of us that want > that log, into moving it to /home/username/log and reprogramming > logrotate to maintain it there years ago.
Nuthin' wrong with that. An individual user's logs in his tree, and system logs in theirs. No effort: $ grep log .fetchmailrc .procmailrc .fetchmailrc:set logfile "/tmp/fetchmail_log" ... .procmailrc:LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/tmp_log.$$ .procmailrc:FINAL_LOG=$MAILDIR/log If you had a house full of rowdy teenagers, would you really want them all able to wallop /var/log? And what if it were a tribe of uni students? (I think I have you sufficiently worried now, Gene.) Erik (Who was both, once.)
