Re: Overwriting Vice Appending to MAILDIR Files

At 12:39 AM 10/6/98 GMT, John Kent wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> How do I get procmail to overwrite files in my MAILDIR vice appending to them?
>
> I've tried many things, most recently:
>
>        :0
>        * ^Subject.*O2
>        * ^Subject.*usage
>        | /sbin/cat > O2_usage.rpt
>
> All without success.  In the above case I get a "File exists" message
> and it writes  it to the mbox not O2_usage.rpt.
I'm going to guess you're using csh or similar, and in your .cshrc
you've "set noclobber" or something like that.

Try the line:
        SHELL=/bin/sh
near the top of your .procmailrc

Cheers,
Stan