Procmail help

[Nitin]

Hi,

thanks for your response. i've been searching docs for 2 days and i wasnt
assuming on the code i wrote, but it somehow doesnt seem to work. Can you
have a look at it and tell me whats wrong, if you have a good knowledge of
procmail recepies.

All i want to do is, change the permission of a file created by
/etc/procmailrc (spam mails forwarded to that file). I've tried following
codes:

:0
| chown username "filename"

:0
| my-script (which is a shell scipt and does the same thing)

:0
*
| chown username "filename"

:0
*
| my-script (which is a shell scipt and does the same thing)

None of above works. while the following works:

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
chown username "filename"

but it was actually:

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
filename

Now, I cudnt either find, how to do both tasks, cuz if it doesnt forward
message, there is no meaning of changing the owner.

Please help me or direct me to somewhere I can find the answer, maybe a list
or website, I'll really appreciate that

Thanks
Nitin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net>
To: "Nitin" <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Procmail help


> procmail scripting syntax is very different from most
> scripting/programming languages. you need to look at documentation
> for procmail in order to understand how to accomplish what you're
> after.
>
> i'd suggest that you start with the procmail site. there are links at
> the bottom of the main page that point to a variety of other sites,
> some of which provide very useful examples.
>
> you seem to just be guessing at things, which is a very dangerous
> thing to do when running as root and mucking with mail related things.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> > From: Nitin <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> > To: replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> > Date: Thursday, April 07, 2005 09:58:54 PM +0530
> > Subject: Re: Procmail help
> >
> > I used this before, thinking the same, but didnt work either:
> >
> > :0
> > * ! ? chown apache "$SPAMFILE"
> > {
> >      LOG = "$_: ERROR: Could not change ownership of '$SPAMFILE' to
> > 'apache'"
> > }
> >
> > What's wrong with this? Can you help me correct it if thr's
> > anything wrong, it doesnt give any other but simply doesnt work
> > either.
> >
> > Thanks anyway for your time
> > Nitin
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> > To: "Nitin" <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 09:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: Procmail help
> >
> >
> >> what you wrote was a shell script. you should look at procmail
> >> scripting syntax and do your script in that syntax (so that it will
> >> work from within your procmailrc file).
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Original Message ----------
> >> > From: Nitin <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> >> > To: replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> >> > Date: Thursday, April 07, 2005 09:43:06 PM +0530
> >> > Subject: Re: Procmail help
> >> >
> >> > no i was using that in procmail itself
> >> >
> >> > and it works from other script. Do i need to do i from other
> >> > script, if yes, how can i call it from procmail?
> >> >
> >> > thanks for your time
> >> > Nitin
> >> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> > From: <replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net>
> >> > To: "Nitin" <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> >> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 08:15 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: Procmail help
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> you're trying do this as a separate shell script, correct?
> >> >> (that's not procmail scripting syntax).
> >> >>
> >> >> also, what user are you trying to run this script as? it will
> >> >> only work if run as root. [i haven't actually looked at it
> >> >> closely enough to see if it *should* work.]
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ---------- Original Message ----------
> >> >> > From: Nitin <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> >> >> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> >> >> > <redhat-list at redhat.com> Date: Thursday, April 07, 2005
> >> >> > 07:44:55 PM +0530
> >> >> > Subject: Procmail help
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi all,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm facing a problem and its urgent.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Can anybody help me in this:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm using procmail to filter mails and put the spam mails in
> >> >> > separate file. Now the problem is, its creates the file with
> >> >> > root as owner and webmail cant read it unless the owner is
> >> >> > apache.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm trying following code to change owner and permission but
> >> >> > somehow it's not working (no erroras either), while if i
> >> >> > change the code slightly it gives valid errors, which means it
> >> >> > executes. Code is:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > if [ -f "$SPAMFILE" ]; then
> >> >> >        chown apache.mail "$SPAMFILE"
> >> >> >        chmod 660 "$SPAMFILE"
> >> >> > else
> >> >> >        LOG = "$_: ERROR: Could not change ownership of
> >> >> >        '$SPAMFILE'" fi
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What's wrong with it? or if it wont work, how shud i do tht?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Please help me ASAP..
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks in advance
> >> >> > Nitin
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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