Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/02/23/16:45:38
On 02/23/2010 03:37 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
>> Evidently if it does not find /home/TBaker/.procmailrc, it does
>> not go looking for /home/tbaker/.procmailrc. Since my entire
>> file system is based on tbaker, I'd love to find a way to eradicate
>> the "TBaker" from my system entirely. The guy who set up my XP
>> installation many years ago set my login as "TBaker" but it has
>> never caused any practical problems until now.
He should still be shot. ;-)
> This worked:
> $ cd /home
> $ cp tbaker/.procmailrc TBaker
> $ procmail VERBOSE=on<test.mbox
> procmail: [3528] Tue Feb 23 15:22:39 2010
> procmail: Rcfile: "/home/TBaker/.procmailrc"
> procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/TBaker"
> procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmailrc"
> procmail: Assigning "LOG=
> "
>
> procmail: Assigning "VERBOSE=on"
> procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all"
> procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/tbaker/u/folders"
> procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/home/tbaker/u/folders/mbox"
> procmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc"
> procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
> procmail: Opening "/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
> $
>
> In a pinch, it looks like this would solve the problem, but it is an ugly
> workaround.
Yeah, I wouldn't go that far when a symbolic link to /home/tbaker would
suffice.
> It would be nicer to expunge any references to "TBaker" entirely.
> I guess they are in the Win32 registry? I do not find any in my
> cygwin configuration
> files.
>
> Hang on... There it is in /etc/passwd...:
> TBaker:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-OCTAVIUS\TBaker,S-[...omitted...]:/home/TBaker:/bin/bash
>
> and /etc/passwd was last accessed on 2007-11-16, so it would seem
> procmail _was_ able
> to work with this before the latest update -- if indeed /etc/passwd
> has anything to do with
> procmail's operation...
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html>
Changing the user name in '/etc/passwd' to use the proper case should
resolve the
problem though.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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