I trust you've used 'find' or somesuch and mailed yourself the results?
You've been your own sysadmin far too long, Sean. Think of the CPU load
of something like this:
find / -name make -print 2>/dev/null | xargs ls -l
(The "2>/dev/null" is to suppress all the stderr when I can't descend
into other users' directories.)
Trust instead that I've considered how quickly I'd lose my account if I
tried that. (If I could get away with it, I'd put them into the
procmail logfile, not mail them to myself.)
Or, depending upon the OS which the mail server is running, possibly
install it to another machine
Install what to another machine? I don't have access to anything that
can produce binaries that will run on the mail server.
Here on Panix, for example, I can't log into the mail server either.
But the binaries I compile on the customer shell machines will run on
the mail server, so I'm fine.
... or locate someone running that OS and get
them to compile a binary for you.
That person would also have to make sure that the values I'd need
compiled in for such things as PATH and ORGMAIL would appear in the
binary rather than those that the procmail build process calculates for
his/her system. And I'd need to get a reliable reading from uname -a as
generated by procmail on a trigger message in order to say what I need.
All told, it's far more trouble than it's worth. If I had realized the
"nevermind" part before posting the question, I'd not have posted it at
all. The only reason I didn't is that it never occurred to me. Since
they pulled that gambit, they've moved shell logins to a new machine,
and I had never tried building procmail on it until this morning after
my first post. It turned out that make(1) was not in $PATH on the shell
login machine. With some poking around I found two versions of it, but
how the heck can I do that on a machine where I have no shell access,
other than a find down from /?
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