[Wylug-help] Permissions (Was: Procmail problem - resolved)

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 15:38, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 22 Nov 05, Smylers (Smylers at stripey.com) wrote:
> > ... whether that "644" is a clue.  I don't remember ever really
> > suffering from problems with permissions.  Equally, I've never
> > completely got my head round the binary/octal arithmetic necessary
> > for setting permissions like 644.
>
> Ah yes, procmail tends to barf if anyone else can write to the
> procmailrc file, though it logs the error (suspicious rcfile) out of
> the way in your mailserver logs (if anywhere).
>
> For the 644 permissions etc, we have a matrix like this:
>
> 4 2 1
> r w x
>
> for the user/group/all. So, mode 6 = rw, etc.

Yes, it was finding the 'suspicious .procmailrc' message in syslog that 
eventually made someone remember that and point it out to me.  Another 
lesson learned ;-)

Anne
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