From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 18:26:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2120E37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F2543FCB for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr364-a26.otenet.gr [195.167.109.58]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1M2Q82O010386; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:26:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1M2PdNq083444; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:25:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1M2PWEs083263; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:25:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:25:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Warren Block Cc: David Bear , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail question a little off topic Message-ID: <20030222022532.GB42330@gothmog.gr> References: <20030221142404.A5503@asu.edu> <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-21 17:48, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, David Bear wrote: > > ======== .procmailrc ========== > > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:$HOME/bin > > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail > > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox > > # > > # catch systems for syslog entries > > # ppsrv3, PAC SMB server > > :0: > > * ^From.*@ppsrv3.pp.asu.edu > > syslogs/ppsrv3 > > ^^^ Shouldn't this be an absolute path? Don't count on procmail > running in the same directory you think it is. (Maybe just a problem, > and not *the* problem.) It's ok. If you don't use an absolute path, procmail appends the mailbox path of the rule to "${MAILDIR}/", which is already set to a correct value in an earlier line ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message