Hi Barry and Sam, thanks for your replies, SELinux has actually been disabled for some time due to other issues, so that's not the cause of this problem. Originally, other mail for nkj was being delivered fine, only mail expanded from the root alias was failing. However, now I've checked the last message in my spool file was from March 23rd, even though the timestamp on the nkj spool is March 27th.
Very Strange. I have no idea whats going on here. -Nick On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:50 +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:42 +0100, Nick Jennings wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have a strange problem, where when I get an email which was > > originally sent to root, which expands in the /etc/aliases file to my > > user account (nkj), procmail is unable to open the file for writing. > > However I can receive emails which have been sent directly to the nkj > > account. > > > > Here is are the relevant log entries in /var/log/maillog: > > > > > > maillog:Mar 27 06:25:58 srv1 postfix/cleanup[697]: E30DE78006: > > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > maillog:Mar 27 06:25:58 srv1 postfix/qmgr[11986]: E30DE78006: from=<>, > > size=2227, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > maillog:Mar 27 06:25:58 srv1 postfix/bounce[1231]: 5BA8778002: sender > > non-delivery notification: E30DE78006 > > maillog:Mar 27 06:25:58 srv1 postfix/local[698]: E30DE78006: > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, > > delay=0.01, > > delays=0/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (can't create user output > > file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/nkj" ) > > maillog:Mar 27 06:25:58 srv1 postfix/qmgr[11986]: E30DE78006: removed > > > > > > > > As usual, /var/mail is symlinked to /var/spool/mail and here are the > > relevant perms: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -l /var/mail > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 14 07:37 /var/mail -> spool/mail > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -l /var/spool/ | grep mail$ > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 12288 Mar 27 06:07 mail > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/nkj > > -rw------- 1 nkj nkj 51200629 Mar 27 06:25 /var/spool/mail/nkj > > > > > > > > It should be noted that /var/spool/mail is a mounted partition, with > > quotas enabled, however there are no quotas set on the nkj account: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# mount | grep mail > > /dev/sda2 on /var/spool/mail type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# df -h | grep mail > > /dev/sda2 30G 283M 28G 1% /var/spool/mail > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# quota -u nkj > > Disk quotas for user nkj (uid 500): none > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# quota -g nkj > > Disk quotas for group nkj (gid 500): none > > > > > > Any ideas why this is happening? I've been trying to figure this out for > > a while now with no luck at all, hoping someone here can point me in the > > right direction. > > What's your SELinux status? Enforcing/Permissive/Disabled? > > My first thought, in the absence of any other ideas is that SELinux is > denying procmail the ability to write to that file. Possibly it's > because it's mis-labelled. Do you have SELinux alerts in > your /var/log/messages file? > > -- > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
