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<199703041643(_dot_)RAA17003(_at_)Campino(_dot_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE>,
"Dr. C. M
ichael McCallum" writes:
}
} Hello, I am trying to use procmail to filter my email.
} It works pretty well, except that whenever I get mail,
} it is writing some sort of log to my background display
} (I use the root display). I guess it is trying to write to
} the console, and even when I pop up an console xterm, it writes
} to the screen instead of the console xterm.
Most likely you've uncommented the line
#define console "/dev/console"
in config.h. If it's uncommented, comment it out and recompile, and you'll
be in business.
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