[olug] procmail vacation intermittent error

[Jon H. Larsen]

I changed the lines to :0 ???: vacation.lock

Got the same result:
procmail: Unlocking "vacation.lock"
procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"
procmail: Executing "cat,/home/user1/admin1/.vacation.msg"
procmail: Error while writing to "cat"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
procmail: Unlocking "vacation.lock"
procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"

Puzzling, eh?

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Dave Weis wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:32:07 -0500
> From: Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] procmail vacation intermittent error
> 
> Jon H. Larsen wrote:
> > I have a procmail based vacation at work.  I have been encountering a 
> > intermittent error that I can't seem to resolve.  My script seems to work 
> > only half the time.  It only fails sometimes when attempting to cat a 
> > files for inclusion in the outgoing response email.  
> > 
> > Here is the procmail code for the return message:
> > 
> > :0 fhw
> > * ^Subject: *\/[^ ].*
> > | $FORMAIL -I "Subject: I am away AutoReply (was: $MATCH)"
> > 
> > :0 fbw
> > | $CAT $HOME/.vacation.msg
> > 
> > :0 w
> > | $SENDMAIL -t -Rhdrs
> > 
> 
> You might want to use lockfiles to make sure you aren't running the 
> recipes in parallel. Change the first lines to :0???: (add trailing colon)
> 
> dave
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