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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:25:02 +0100
From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@oslo.ath.cx>
To: opendaddy@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: opensmtpd: procmail: not found
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:56:58PM +0000, opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 26. januar 2015 at 2:02 PM, "parv" <parv@pair.com> wrote:
> >
> >Is procmail actually installed, for locate database could be old 
> >and thus whereis would be lying? What is the output of ...
> >
> >  # whereis procmail | xargs ls -l
> 
> Awesome man! Looks like locate is clueless:
> 
> # whereis procmail | xargs ls -l
> ls: procmail:: No such file or directory
> -rwsr-sr-x  1 root  mail   98224 Oct  3 04:19 /usr/local/bin/procmail
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  10793 Oct  3 04:19 /usr/local/man/man1/procmail.1.gz
> 
> Just ran:
> 
> # /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> >>> WARNING
> >>> Executing updatedb as root.  This WILL reveal all filenames
> >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
> 
> But I'm still getting `ls: procmail:: No such file or directory`. Ideas?

To understand why you get this error run:

% whereis procmail | xargs -t ls -l

or 

% whereis procmail | xargs -t -n1 ls -l

Do you have a .forward file in $HOME with the content "|procmail"?

-- 
Herbert