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Explanation needed for error msg

1997-03-19 01:33:19
I'm getting the following series of messages in my procmail log:

procmail: [1177] Tue Mar 18 22:38:47 1997
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,/home/steveh/mail/.msg.cache"
procmail: [1177] Tue Mar 18 22:38:47 1997
procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/formail"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded

I thought that it looked like permissions problems, but this is what I
show:

nugrange:~> ls -l mail/.msg.cache 
-rw-rw-rw-   1 steveh   users        8261 Mar 19 00:00 mail/.msg.cache
nugrange:~> ls -l `which formail`
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         25032 May 11  1996 /usr/bin/formail*

If anything, I think that the permissions are too lax, not too strict.

Can anyone suggest what this message is saying?

(for completeness, I'm running Linux 2.0.27, and procmail-3.11pre4,
and I've attached my .procmail file.)

--                                                             --
Steve Hill                                      Mountain View, CA
  Email: steveh(_at_)nugrange(_dot_)vip(_dot_)best(_dot_)com                
415-961-7889
-----------------------------------------------------------------
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/steveh  #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile   #recommended
VERBOSE=on

:0fhw
|/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 $MAILDIR/.msg.cache

:0:
* ^Subject.*(unsub|cribe)
unsubs

:0:
* ^From.*pilot
pilot

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[QUEST
pgquest

:0:
* ^TO_(procmail|smartlist)
procmail

:0:
* ^TO_postgres95
postgres95

:0:
* ^TO_ASKSAM-L
asksam

:0:
* ^TO_folk
folk-music

:0:
* ^TO_ADV-HTML
adv-html

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