On Sep 27, Pieter Donche
(nospam-Pieter(_dot_)Donche(_at_)ua(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be(_dot_)ns) typed:
Pieter: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Cerebus the Aardvark wrote:
Pieter:
Pieter: > On 9/26/05, Pieter Donche
<Pieter(_dot_)Donche(_at_)ua(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be> wrote:
Pieter: >> setup:
Pieter: >> # cd /
Pieter: >> # mkdir .procmail
Pieter: >> # chmod 700 .procmail
Pieter: >
Pieter: > Are you sure the / is root's home? On my systems it's been years and
Pieter: > years since root's $HOME was set to /. It's normally /var/root/ on
my
Pieter: > machines, for example (OS X, FreeBSD).
Pieter: >
Pieter: > try cd ~root instead
Pieter:
Pieter: / is what is in the /etc/passwd file for the user root
Pieter: cd ~root puts one into /
Pieter:
Pieter: Pieter
Yes, Solaris 9 puts root at / . I never quite understood it and when I
changed it on my Solaris 9 box vipw whines.
Pieter: First, to avoid losing email I would suggest you edit your
.forward file
-----
root,|/home/local/bin/procmail
-----
So that way it'll at least keep a copy in your INBOX.
(odd location for a binary, imo)
And I would change the procmailrc to write to a local file, rather than
forwarding the message.
-----
:0:
/Procmail_test
-----
Second, have you look in /var/log for a procmail log file?
(I dont think I compiled it to log there ...)
It could be possible that procmail is still logging there.
Thanks
Birl
Archives http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/
____________________________________________________________
procmail mailing list Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail