David Stone <dstone(_at_)chem(_dot_)utoronto(_dot_)ca> writes:
After switching over to Redhat Linux 6.1, some of the users' procmail
processes started generating files in the mail spool directory of
form
BOGUS.udername.wxyz
where wxyz is an apparently random character string. Only one BOGUS
file is generated per user, and only a select number of users have these
files. Any clues?
To quote the procmail(1) manpage:
If /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME is a bogus mailbox (i.e. does
not belong to the recipient, is unwritable, is a symbolic
link or is a hard link), procmail will upon startup try to
rename it into a file starting with `BOGUS.$LOGNAME.' and
ending in an inode-sequence-code. If this turns out to be
impossible, ORGMAIL will have no initial value, and hence
will inhibit delivery without a proper rcfile.
Procmail didn't like something about the file that got renamed.
Philip Guenther