procmailrc question

Waldher, Travis R Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com
Wed Mar 16 16:50:25 UTC 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:23 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: procmailrc question
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:50 PM
> > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > Subject: Re: procmailrc question
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:41:27PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > > > Ok.. good question here.
> > > >
> > > > If I don't want an /etc/.procmailrc, and I have users that have
an
> > > > invalid $HOME path on the sendmail server, how can I support
> > .procmailrc
> > > > files for those users as procmail only appears to look at
> > > > $HOME/.procmailrc.
> > >
> > > Not true.  Procmail looks at /etc/procmailrc (not
/etc/.procmailrc)
> > > and then at $HOME/.procmailrc.  Note also that the latter must be
> > > owned by the user and be writable only by that user (644 perms).
> > >
> > > I'm curious.  What users have an invalid $HOME, and why?
> >
> > In short, I have a mess here.
> >
> > We have multiple user account file systems.  The one for our
sendmail
> > server is say /acct, the one for our HP machines would be /acct.hp.
But
> > our sendmail server also mounts that so mail can be handled
properly.
> >
> > The problem is, I can't create user directories in /acct, even if
it's
> > just to put a .procmailrc link to their /acct.hp directory.
> >
> > So I need procmail to be able to use /acct/username/.procmailrc
> > (otherwise known as $HOME) and /acct.hp/username/.procmailrc.
> >
> > Hope that made some sense.
> 
> Hmm.  Well, sendmail determines each user's HOME directory from
> /etc/passwd.  That (his HOME) is where the user's .procmailrc should
> reside.  How does that relate to the two user worlds?

On an HP, their home directory would be /acct.

On a linux box their home directory would be /acct

On an SGI their home directory would be /acct

The problem is, none of those are the same files system. :(





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