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Re: procmail output file format.
- From: Thomas Baker <thomas dot baker at bi dot fhg dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: jhouse at mitre dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:11:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: procmail output file format.
- References: <BF35D9C143BCCC4EB63181B67C9320C83A9C78@serv-075.icon-germany.local> <3CF68E38.D0971844@mitre.org>
I am finding exactly what Jason found -- when I add a "-f"
argument to /usr/bin/procmail (under Cygwin), everything fails
because it suddenly wants to access /home/Administrator.
This reminds me of another little quirk that has been
bothering me: about one time in ten, when I "reply" in Mutt
-- and I haven't been able to tell under which particular
circumstances -- the message comes up with my name expanded
to "Administrator\\MyMachine" (or something like that) and
I have to replace this manually with "Thomas Baker".
Anyway, several solutions were suggested:
1) A simple .procmailrc at /home/Administrator that says:
INCLUDERC=[pathname];
2) Removing /home/Administrator and making it a "simulink"
(a "symbolic link"?) to a home directory;
3) Change /home/Administrator to something else in /etc/passwd.
Jason had good experience with #2 (still, two weeks later?),
but messing with Cygwin's /home/Administrator makes me nervous
about unforeseen dire consequences. What is the role of the
(presumably WIN2000) Administrator under Cygwin? Maybe it's
just "symbolic"? Has anyone tried solutions #1 and #3?
Tom
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:40:24PM -0400, Jason House wrote:
> Nice solution :) I like it.
>
> Removing /home/Administrator and making it a simulink to my desired home
> works perfectly. It is also a very easy thing to recreate in the event
> of a full restore... I also allows me to remove my hacks to avoid using
> $HOME.
>
> Now I get to hunt down a good .muttrc file :)
>
> Heribert Dahms wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jason(s),
> >
> > did you try a symlink?
> > You might even store a script to recreate that in your backuped area 8-)
> >
> > Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason House [SMTP:jhouse@mitre.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 22:21
> > > To: Jason Tishler
> > > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: procmail output file format.
> > >
> > [Heribert] [snip]
> >
> > > Something like having /home/Administrator/.procmailrc simply say "use
> > > /Docume~1/jhouse/MyDocu~1/UnixHome/.procmailrc" would be better since it
> > > guarantees that it won't get deleted after it grows in complexity.
> > >
> > [Heribert] [snip]
>
>
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