Dallman Ross <dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com> writes:
From: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier(_at_)ripco(_dot_)com>
Procmail can guess a name for the local lock-
file only when the action is to save to a folder
or a write to command line
that includes ">>".
Or, one would presume, ">" - and other variants such as
">!" and ">>!" ?
One would presume that if David had meant that, he would have said "an
output file redirection" or some such text. He didn't, therefore one
would consider checking the manpage to see what it says in the
matter. Examining the procmailrc(5) manpage one finds:
Local lockfile
If you put a second (trailing) ':' on the first recipe
line, then procmail will use a locallockfile (for this
recipe only). You can optionally specify the locallock-
file to use; if you don't however, procmail will use the
destination filename (or the filename following the first
'>>') and will append $LOCKEXT to it.
Since that mentions neither ">", ">!", nor ">>!", one would conclude,
correctly, that procmail looks for a literal ">>" only.
Philip Guenther
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