Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:25:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail question a little off topic Message-ID: <20030222022532.GB42330@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com> References: <20030221142404.A5503@asu.edu> <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com>
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On 2003-02-21 17:48, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> 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 ;-)
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