On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > > message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail.
>
> I like to peek into the binary to make sure of what I am getting.
> Therefore I ran 'strings' on /usr/bin/procmail and see this.
>
> strings /usr/bin/procmail |grep /var
> /var/mail/
>
> It shows /var/mail/ and not /var/spool/mail/. If mail "falls off the
> end" of your ~/.procmailrc file then that should be the value of
> DEFAULT unless DEFAULT is overridden. The man page confirms this.
>
> /var/mail/$LOGNAME.lock
> lockfile for the system mailbox
> (not automatically used by proc
> mail, unless $DEFAULT equals
> /var/mail/$LOGNAME and procmail is
> delivering to $DEFAULT)
>
> Next I would guess a check of ~/.procmailrc and /etc/procmail is in
> order to double check that this is not getting explicitly set to
> someplace unexpected. At this point I really expect you will find
> something there that is setting DEFAULT. (I seem to recall that even
> if this is changed procmail will place lockfiles in /var/mail/ and
> that is a bug getting fixed in development versions. So YMMV here.)
>
Bob,
You the man! I had been explicitly specifying DEFAULT to
/var/spool/mail in .procmailrc. I fixed that and now the problem has gone
away.
Thanks,
Kenneth
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