On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:32:19 -0400, Roderick Schertler
<roderick(_at_)argon(_dot_)org> said:
I don't see how this setup is supposed to work with a mail spool
directory that looks like
drwxrwxr-x 6 root mail 512 Apr 16 14:46 /var/mail
and uses .lock file locking, what am I missing?
I haven't seen any responses to this query. If anyone is using procmail
on a system which uses setgid-mail mail agents and has a mode 775 group
mail spool directory would you please let me know what you see when you
run this test?
$ mkdir empty-dir
$ cd empty-dir
$ echo test | ../formail -a 'To: foo' | HOME=`pwd` ../procmail VERBOSE=on
procmail: [10150] Fri Apr 18 15:47:08 1997
procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/mail/roderick.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/roderick"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/roderick"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
From foo(_at_)bar Fri Apr 18 15:47:08 1997
Folder: /var/mail/roderick 54
procmail: Notified comsat: "roderick(_at_)2783:/var/mail/roderick"
$ ls -ld ../procmail /var/mail
-rwsr-sr-x 2 root mail 83748 Apr 18 15:40 ../procmail
drwxrwxr-x 6 root mail 512 Apr 18 15:33 /var/mail
procmail is deciding not to try to create /var/mail/roderick.lock to
lock the mail file, and judging from the code it looks like this is what
it's meant to do. I don't understand it.
--
Roderick Schertler
roderick(_at_)argon(_dot_)org