Okay, I figured out that it wasn't working because I had changed
the ownership of the .forward file to root. I knew that! :^)
Well, at some point in the not-too-remote past, anyway.
Can the .forward file be set to 400? Guess I'll try it.
It didn't take me long to find the missing carriage returns
in my perl code nor the missing semi-colon (so no need to reply
about those).
However, there is an error in the .procmail.log below
which I've indicated with carets. What would cause
this failure with the lockfile?
The /etc/procmailrc and the $HOME/EXCLUDERCs that it called
both forwarded my message back to me and
responded with the vacation reply.
Dave
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procmail: [29020] Thu May 24 18:06:23 2001
procmail: Executing "test,-f,/home/beckyw/.forwardrc"
procmail: [29020] Thu May 24 18:06:23 2001
procmail: Match on "test -f /home/beckyw/.forwardrc"
procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/beckyw/.forwardrc"
procmail: Match on ! "^X-Loop: beckyw(_at_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu"
procmail: Executing "/usr/lib/sendmail,-oi,dave(_at_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/lib/sendmail -oi
dave(_at_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu"
procmail: Executing "test,-f,/home/beckyw/.vacationrc"
procmail: Match on "test -f /home/beckyw/.vacationrc"
procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/beckyw/.vacationrc"
procmail: Match on ! "^X-Loop: beckyw(_at_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu"
procmail: Match on ! "^Precedence.*(junk|bulk|list)"
procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "_cFH.PAbD7.geosci"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
procmail: Lock failure on "vacation.lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/ucb/vacation,-t1w,beckyw"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/ucb/vacation -t1w beckyw"
procmail: No match on "^Subject:(\<)*(show diskquota|show quota|quota -v)$"
procmail: [29020] Thu May 24 18:06:24 2001
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/new/_cFH,PAbD7.geosci"
From dave(_at_)geol(_dot_)ucsb(_dot_)edu Thu May 24 18:06:23 2001
Subject: test /etc/procmailrc with .forward owned by user
Folder: /var/mail/new/_cFH,PAbD7.geosci 394
procmail: Notified comsat: "beckyw(_at_)0:/var/mail/new/_cFH,PAbD7.geosci"
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