I am having a slight problem with my procmail setup. I have it installed
in my home directory, not globally in the /usr directory. When it runs,
the log files show an error (shown below). I know that this is due to me
not having write access to /var/spool/mail. Procmail is still able to
lock the files with a kernel lock, correct? So there is really no need
to worry? Is there a way I can make it stop giving me this error message
besides getting the program installed globally?
Here is the snippet from my log file:
procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/stalbert/.procmail/rc.testing"
procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:55:49 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:55:57 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:05 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:13 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:21 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:29 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:37 1996
procmail: Locking "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/spool/mail/_3j7Gleonardo"
procmail: Lock failure on "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/spool/mail/stalbert"
procmail: Opening "/usr/spool/mail/stalbert"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
From fhalden(_at_)gprep(_dot_)pvt(_dot_)k12(_dot_)md(_dot_)us Fri Mar 8
21:55:41 1996
Subject: BOUNCE
rime-teens(_at_)leonardo(_dot_)gprep(_dot_)pvt(_dot_)k12(_dot_)md(_dot_)us:
Admin request
Folder: /usr/spool/mail/stalbert 1863
procmail: [31556] Fri Mar 8 21:56:39 1996
procmail: Notified comsat: "stalbert(_at_)7986:/usr/spool/mail/stalbert"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Scott Talbert