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Re: Suspicious rcfile HP-UX 10.2

1999-04-09 10:50:51
I simply(!!!) copied my .procmailrc file over (see below).

None of my mail was being delivered so I ran "formail -s procmail [file]"
as shown in the 3.13 man page and I get the following err message:

procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/dfd/.procmailrc"
procmail: Couldn't read "/home/dfd/.procmailrc"

I have changed the mode of the .procmailrc to multiple settings
444 600 700 755 744

From PROCMAIL(1) in 3.12+ releases:

       Suspicious rcfile "x"  The owner of the rcfile was not the
                              recipient or  root,  the  file  was
                              world  writable,  or  the directory
                              that   contained   it   was   world
                              writable,  or  this was the default
                              rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc) and  ei-
                              ther  it  was group writable or the
                              directory  that  contained  it  was
                              group  writable (the rcfile was not
                              used).

You can override the GROUP checking by defining GROUP_PER_USER at 
compile-time, although it's not recommended.

Chris

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