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Re: Procmail output errors

2000-01-25 06:06:08
Looking at your $PATH below....
As I recall, it's inadvisable to put the users own path at the beginning
of the $PATH. There are some possible security issues involved.
Can anyone verify this?
-Colin
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, S.Toms wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David W. Tamkin wrote:

dt> S.Toms wrote,
dt> 
dt> | I've all of a sudden come across a weird problem with procmail.  ...  
each
dt> | message causes the following errors
dt> 
dt> |  /bin/sh: cat: No such file or directory
dt> |  /bin/sh: mv: No such file or directory
dt> | etc.. for all other shell commands that occur, i.e.: formail, grep, rm, 
etc..
dt> 
dt> Is your $PATH screwed up?  
dt> 

  The $PATH appears correct, 
skull(_at_)pipedream:~ > echo $PATH
/home/skull/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde/bin:.
skull(_at_)pipedream:~ > 


dt> 

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