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Hi, I started using procmail recently and whenever I receive a new mail
an error message saying "mesg: cannot stat biff failed:
cannot locate your tty:...." appears in my log file.
Log file ------- procmail: Locking "/usr/mail/ddivakar.lock" procmail:
Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/mail/ddivakar" procmail: Opening
"/usr/mail/ddivakar" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock biff failed: cannot
locate your tty: ttyname() for file descriptor 2 returned NULL procmail:
[12401] Tue Mar 11 14:21:05 1997 procmail: Unlocking
"/usr/mail/ddivakar.lock" From dopost(_at_)grunt(_dot_)dejanews(_dot_)com Tue
Mar 11
14:21:03 1997 Subject: Deja News posted your article:
<858118764(_dot_)25650(_at_)dejanews(_dot_)com> Folder: /usr/mail/ddivakar 1506
procmail: Notified comsat: "ddivakar(_at_)0:/usr/mail/ddivakar" mesg: cannot
stat biff failed: cannot locate your tty: ttyname() for file descriptor
2 returned NULL
Can somebody explain why this is happening?
thanks,
deena
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