Re: [vps-mail] Couldn't determine implicit lockfile

["Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

At 01:47 PM 12/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:

> The original poster (sorry, don't remember who it was) followed up with a 
> correction to a typographical error in the recipe.  I believe the 
> erroneous last line:
> :/usr/sbin/sendmail
> is supposed to start with a pipe instead of a colon:
> |/usr/sbin/sendmail

Sorry, I missed that follow-up mail

> That's probably the correction you needed.  I'm pretty sure the change you 
> made (removing the colon after the zero) is not what you wanted.

Well, it seems to DO what I wanted, which is a result to me.
What "damage" would removing the colon do?

Andy


> Be seeing you...
> --Lang
>
> Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet wrote:
>
> > Solved
> >
> > This caused problems:-
> >
> > > :0:sendmail.lock
> > > * ... conditions here
> > > :/usr/sbin/sendmail
> >
> >
> > Like this...
> >
> > > procmail: Skipped "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> > > procmail: Skipped "H:sendmail.lock"
> >
> >
> > I had...
> >
> > > :0:
> > > * conditions
> > > !nouser
> >
> >
> > I removed the ":" after :0 and it now works fine.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 01:05 PM 12/3/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > > You can specifically name a lock file on the :0 line.  Normally,
> > > procmail guesses, but if it can't figure it out, you need to tell it by
> > > adding a lock file with :lockfile.
> > >
> > > Ex:
> > >
> > > :0:sendmail.lock
> > > * ... conditions here
> > > :/usr/sbin/sendmail
> > >
> > > That should get rid of any warnings.
> >
> >
> > So I should start every recipe with :0:sendmail.lock and end it with 
> > :/usr/sbin/sendmail
> > I'll try it
> >
> > Thanks
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >         --Bruce
> > >
> > > P.S. The man procmailrc entry snippet:
> > >
> > >        A  line starting with ':' marks the beginning of a recipe.
> > >        It has the following format:
> > >
> > >               :0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ]
> > >               <zero or more conditions (one per line)>
> > >               <exactly one action line>
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:37 +0100, Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Could anyone suggest what's causing the error message in 
> > > /var/log/procmail.log?
> > > >
> > > > >procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help
> > > > Andy McKell
> > > >
> > > >
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