To all who answered this, thanks, has taken me a while to get around to it. I checked out the useful site this evening and have got some good ideas.
Thanks again Ian On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first > > line of a procmail recipe? > > > > I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys > > and wherefores of same. > > > > :0: > > * ^TOscuba > > scubafile > > > > > > :0 > > * ^From.*peter > > * ^Subject:.*compilers > > petcompil > > > > both examples from man procmailex. Even if the second example has > > two conditions to be satisfied, why does it dispense with the > > trailing : ? > > http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html#locking > > ...RickM... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
