Thank you Philip, procmail is working just fine now.
...back to filtering.....
-tim driscoll
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:38:37 -0600
From: Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>
To: Timothy Driscoll <tdriscol(_at_)BayNetworks(_dot_)COM>
Cc: procmail(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Subject: Re: Program failure (255)
Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 06:16:42 +0200 (MET DST)
Resent-From: procmail(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Timothy Driscoll <tdriscol(_at_)BayNetworks(_dot_)COM> writes:
I am receiving an error "Program failure (255)" while trying to run any
command (like formail) in my .procmailrc. Procmail works well when I
use it to filter email, but attempting to run 'formail' (or any program)
produces that error.
The first guess in a case like this is that something is wrong with
$SHELL. Try putting
SHELL = /bin/sh
at the top of your .procmailrc.
Philip Guenther