<laugh> agreed. It did get a bit thick around these parts for a while.
I don't want to waded into that one again. ;-)
| Here's what his verbose output is and boy is this puzzling:
|
| procmail: [24416] Fri Aug 3 01:23:33 2001
| procmail: Skipped "0:sircam.lock"
| procmail: Skipped "* B ?? Hi\! How are you(\?|=3F)"
| procmail: Skipped "* 1^0 B ?? I send you this file in order to have your
| advice"
| procmail: Skipped "* 1^0 B ?? I hope you like the file that I send( t)?o
| you"
| procmail: Skipped "* 1^0 B ?? This is the file with the
information that you
| ask for"
| procmail: Skipped "* B ?? See you later(\.|=2E) Thanks"
| procmail: Skipped "/home/tmp/sircam"
|
Yeah...I finally said if he wanted it solved I'd have to log into the box
get root and poke around until the thing works.
Sometimes doing something like this one post at a time is more tedious than
just logging
in, thrashing around for a while and getting it fixed. Although I like the
precision of a surgical approach blunt force trauma is equally effective on
occasions.
It's only a guess, but I'd be suspicious that a previous recipe isn't
properly terminated. Most probably missing an action, but possibly a
missing closing brace or quote. (I think either of those would produce
it's own error message though.) One other possibility is a typo in a
variable name. I've had that where the the variable is expanded to
nothing because it's the wrong name (e.g. SIZE=whatever, then trying to
use SIXE where an empty string or null value is unacceptable). But then
I think that would just cause that particular recipe to fail, not ones
following it. That is unless the typo is in the action line, rendering
it incomprenensible, in which case it could be the cause of the problem
in the first guess.
Don thanks for the suggestions, you've given me some raw material for later
and some quicky things to check. Once again I learn some common denominators
for troubleshooting. I appreciate the perspective.
Regards,
-Colin
--
Colin J. Raven
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