In the last week I have twice rebooted, and each time my .mailfilterrc AND its backup in an RCS directory have disappeared. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this truly bizarre behavior?
I know the file was there because a) I checked and b) mailfilter ran fine before the reboot. I run mailfilter from the preconnect of fetchmail. fetchmail is invoked by the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail script. It runs as user fetchmail. The file is in /var/run/fetchmail/.mailfilterrc with RCS in /var/run/fetchmail/RCS/. Thr RCS directory itself does survive the reboot. The files clearly survive having the ppp connection closed down and restarted (that is, once I get them in place). /var is a Reiser file system on an LVM volume in an EVMS container. I noticed no error messages on boot up, nor do I see any in the log (though the log has fewer messages than showed on the screen). I created the file by doing sux to root, then sux fetchmail and running emacs. (I mention this because emacs and rcs sometimes seem to lose track of exactly who I am when I do this, leading to lock problems on the rcs files). Unfortunately I have not checked for the file before dialing up, since I assumed all was well. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
