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Help! Working List Stopped Working

1997-09-08 18:26:21

I am running a list that uses the following script:


LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail/log

:0
* ^From:(_dot_)*rivhillregister(_at_)lawlab(_dot_)com
{
    :0fhw
    | sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/^$/d' -e 's/^/Bcc: /' rivhillregister ; \
        formail -I"From " -I"To: Unofficial Riverhill Mailing List" -ICc: -IBcc:

    :0
    ! -t
}

to forward all mail from a certain address to all names in a file. It
worked fine for weeks. Now suddenly it has stopped working, and the
following type of entry appears in the log:

 Subject: AA0999 CHAT much ado about nothing
  Folder: /usr/lib/sendmail -t                                             8877
/usr/lib/sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail: cannot open
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/lib/sendmail"
 Subject: AA1002 READING difference between summer reading and outside reading
  Folder: /usr/mail/hawks                                                 11332
/usr/lib/sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail: cannot open
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/lib/sendmail"
 Subject: AA1003 READING summer reading program draft proposal
  Folder: /usr/mail/hawks                                                  9551
/usr/lib/sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail: cannot open
 Subject: AA1005 BOOSTERS Entertainment Books
  Folder: /usr/lib/sendmail -t                                             7071
/usr/lib/sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail: cannot open
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/lib/sendmail"

It appears that procmail has decided to try to write the messages to a
file called sendmail -t rather than call the application sendmail. What
could possibly cause this?

Permissions on /usr/lib/sendmail allow execution by all users. I can't
figure out what went wrong.


hawks(_at_)clark(_dot_)net

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