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Date:      Thu, 30 May 1996 00:53:02 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Ryan Loots <ryan@donald.iafrica.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: email problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960530005156.8278A-100000@donald.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605291755.KAA13789@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Hi There

> > "| IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || 
> > exit 75 #natasha"
> > 
> > and here is mine:
> > 
> > "| IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || 
> > exit 75 #ryan"
> > 
> > [donald] /home/ryan # ls -la .forward
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 ryan  wheel  112 May 29 08:15 .forward
> > 
> > [donald] /home/natasha # ls -la .forward 
> > -rw-rw-r--  1 natasha  guest  91 May 21 15:22 .forward
> 
> I don't know why you would need group write on the file.  8-).
> 
> Are you sure the character in IFS=' ' is a space?  You might have
> swapped a space for a tab.  Did you copy the other file and modify
> it, or did you cut and past/retype it?
> 
> Look also at her bin directory vs. yours.; ther may be an auxillary
> program it can find when running as you.

Thanks for the reply, although a friend and myself found the problem, 
there was a file called test in my home dir, and this was inteferring 
with my .forward

Thanks again
Ryan



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