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Re: procmail for root user

2005-09-27 00:10:31

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Cerebus the Aardvark wrote:

On 9/26/05, Pieter Donche <Pieter(_dot_)Donche(_at_)ua(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be> 
wrote:
setup:
# cd /
# mkdir .procmail
# chmod 700 .procmail

Are you sure the / is root's home?  On my systems it's been years and
years since root's $HOME was set to /.  It's normally /var/root/ on my
machines, for example (OS X, FreeBSD).

try cd ~root instead

/ is what is in the /etc/passwd file for the user root
cd ~root puts one into /

Pieter

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