From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 23:06:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2FB5616A405 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDBC43D82 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:06:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id h30so913874wxd for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.26.1 with SMTP id 1mr8657058wxz; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [216.45.217.148]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h9sm5498401wxd.2006.06.26.16.06.04; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:06:08 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <44sllsp1ck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20060624114654.G1031@seibercom.net> <44sllsp1ck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060626190347.EADE.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: Error Message with Procmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:06:06 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Gerard E. Seibert" writes: > > > I just installed 'procmail' onto my FSBD 6.1 stable system. The > > following error message keeps appearing on screen at what appears > > random intervals. This one appeared as I booted up the system. > > > > Jun 24 11:41:14 seibercom procmail[749]: default rcfile is not an > > absolute path for uid "1002" > > > > I am not sure what it means or how to correct it. Everything appears > > to be working correctly. > > How are you invoking procmail? I'd be surprised if you didn't find > that this message comes up whenever procmail tries to process a > message for the user with uid 1002. Is the procmailrc specified by > hand for that user, perhaps from a .forward file? I found the problem. The path to the use did not start with a '/'. I checked the password file and discovered it. That simple error had gone unnoticed for three months until I installed Procmail. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill