in the stupid question category: Have you checked your permissions to
ensure that the script is executable?
Also check your script. you have an error there somewhere (probably
line 10)
/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl: syntax error at line 10: `)' unexpected
--Curtis
Bill Oakley wrote:
Hello,
I'm using procmail to spool my "interesting" mail to my system mailbox
and my "uninteresting" mail to a secondary mailbox. Specifically, I'm
using a Perl script and testing it's exit status. My recipes are:
:0Wi:
* ? $HOME/Mail/billo2.pl
$HOME/Mail/billo2
:0:
$DEFAULT
My Perl script begins with:
#!/usr/local/perl/bin/perl
The problem I'm seeing is that sometimes the Perl script doesn't seem
to be recognized as a Perl script; my procmail log file contains:
procmail: Executing "/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl"
/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl: my: not found
/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl: my: not found
/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl: my: not found
/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl: syntax error at line 10: `)' unexpected
procmail: Non-zero exitcode (2) from "/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl"
procmail: No match on "/home/staff/billo/Mail/billo2.pl"
It's as though the Perl script is being interpreted as a shell script.
(And if I remove the "#!" line and run the script interactively I see
the same errors.) But again, this only happens some of the time - the
rest of the time the script runs and the messages are spooled
correctly.
Any ideas about what the problem may be?
Thank you for your help.
Bill
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