On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
Robert Holtzman schreef:
Running procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 on ubuntu 8.04. The following
recipe has been unchanged and working well since I ran RedHat 7.3
(yeah, *that* long) until yesterday.
:0 c
/home/holtzm/mail/backup
:0 ic
| cd /home/holtzm/mail && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |
sed -e
As of now it no longer delivers any copies to my backup file, even
tho I have received 600+ emails in the last day or two. As an
experiment I tried
:0 c:
/home/holtzm/mail/backup
which didn't work either. What completely snows me is why after
working all these years, would it suddenly give up the ghost.
Any help, pointers, suggestions appreciated.
Show us a verbose log.
With logging turned on and vergose set to yes:
[holtzm(_at_)localhost]~$ less Procmail/pmlog | grep backup
[holtzm(_at_)localhost]~$
- do you have a file called mail?
A directory, $HOME/mail
- has your username changed?
no
(use $HOME in stead of /home/holtzm, and
set MAILDIR to $HOME/mail)
Reason? MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/holtzm has been working for years. I'll
consider it if you can supply a reason.
SHELL = /usr/bin
VERBOSE = on
MAILDIR = "$HOME/mail"
LOG = "$_.log"
:0 c
backup
:0 ic
| cd $MAILDIR && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |sed -e
That last line is *missing a backquote*.
I screwed up when I pasted the recipe into my message. The recipe is:
:0 c
/home/holtzm/mail/backup
:0 ic
| cd /home/holtzm/mail && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d`
I this about a personal .procmailrc?
yes
Is the code you showed really all
that is in there?
That's all in the Procmail/backup.rc file.
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Now for the *really weird part. Everything above the separator was written
this afternoon. I just (10:30 P.M.) downloaded 46 emails. ONE showed up in
backup! In ~10 yrs of screwing around with Linux I have never run into
this kind of behavior. If anyone can throw me a lifeline I would sure
appreciate it.
Thanks.
--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
check the price of the beer"
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