Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/30/21:53:04
Jason,
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:21:02PM -0400, Jason House wrote:
> For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to work with -m. I have
> reluctantly moved my .procmailrc file to /home/Administrator and removed
> the -m from the command line. This makes does yield the desired
> functionality, but not the right file structure. The problem boils down
> to how procmail rebuilds the environment before executing. I've set
> HOME to be one thing, but procmail makes it default to another. The -m
> was my work around and allowed me to keep all my important files in my
> home directory. Home is part of "My Documents" and thus requires no
> special consideration for backup (especially when I must, unfortunately,
> rely on corporate computer service for repairs/upgrades). I'm happy
> enough with this fix, but would much prefer a better solution.
> Something like having /home/Administrator/.procmailrc simply say "use
> /Docume~1/jhouse/MyDocu~1/UnixHome/.procmailrc" would be better since it
> guarantees that it won't get deleted after it grows in complexity.
One last thought... Why don't you change your /etc/passwd file so that
the home directory for Administrator is:
/Docume~1/jhouse/MyDocu~1/UnixHome
instead of the more conventional:
/home/Administrator
In this way, you don't need to supply the "-m" option or to set HOME
and you get the desired (albeit strange) directory structure.
Jason
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