Within the last 2 or 3 days, procmail has been generating some HUGE log
files (1MB/day) with little incoming email. The logfile repeat the same
pattern over and over again with only real difference being procmail's pid,
time and date. I can post my "~/.procmailrc" file if that would help, but
I didn't change it lately. The only thing I can think of that corresponds
to this happening is when MCI's stupid security autoresponder
<secreply2(_at_)mci(_dot_)net> email bombed me. Here's a portion of the log
file:
procmail: [14254] Sat Mar 28 23:03:07 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/u$
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14272] Sat Mar 28 23:03:18 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/u$
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14294] Sat Mar 28 23:03:28 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/u$
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14320] Sat Mar 28 23:03:39 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14334] Sat Mar 28 23:03:50 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14360] Sat Mar 28 23:04:00 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14383] Sat Mar 28 23:04:10 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14419] Sat Mar 28 23:04:21 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/u5/bodysurf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "GREP=/u5/bodysurf/Bin/grep"
procmail: Assigning "SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail"
procmail: [14443] Sat Mar 28 23:04:32 1998
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Assigning "NORESRETRY=100"
procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/u5/bodysurf/Bin:/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/uc
b"
Lates!
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