On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:11:57 -0500, Philip Guenther
<guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>
wrote:
formail is dieing of a segmentation violation while processing the
command line arguments. This can be seen from the log messages:
procmail: Program failure (-11) of "formail"
formail: Couldn't open "....
(An exitcode of -11 means it died by receiving signal 11. Signal 11 is
SIGSEGV on every system I've ever seen.)
I believe this is a known bug. The problem is that formail doesn't
cope well with files it doesn't have permission to access. So there's
probably nothing wrong with Matt's compiler (but very much with the
recipe he got from that dreaded book, and with formail, too).
<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/1997-03/msg00136.html>
The lock file which formail then tries to use as a cache file because
of the (grave!) error in the recipe will be chmod 000, won't it?
Haven't verified whether this is still happening with 3.13.1 but I
know it does with 3.11pre4 which is what Matt was using, IIRC.
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