From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 11:58:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA08796 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:58:35 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA08788 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:58:29 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA27790; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:57:48 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA10333; Tue, 14 Nov 95 13:57:52 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9511141957.AA10333@olympus> Subject: elm and filter for root To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:57:51 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511141728.SAA07475@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Nov 14, 95 06:28:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1090 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier, Maybe you know. I am trying to filter certain cron messages to root. .forward "|/usr/local/bin/filter -o /tmp/root.filter" .elmrc/filter-rules if (subject contains "pppoly") then delete All messages to root are sent to daemon! The root filterlog cannot be accessed. filter (Tue Nov 14 13:45:01 1995 daemon): Couldn't open log file /root/.elm/filt erlog SEE THE DAEMON? Nov 14 13:45:01 catburg sendmail[1945]: NAA01945: from=root, size=306, class=0, pri=30306, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199511141944.NAA01945@catburg.burgs.org>, relay=root@localhost Nov 14 13:45:01 catburg sendmail[1945]: NAA01945: to="|/usr/local/bin/filter -o /tmp/root.filter", ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent If there is no /var/mail/daemon, no message is delivered! Other users work fine with the same filter and forward files. Help please. Thanks, Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________