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Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:14:52AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:48:20PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > For starters, can anyone out there say whether the problem
> > lies with Cygwin (permissions), Fetchmail, or Procmail?
>
> My WAG is that your problem is due to incorrect file permissions.
> Recall that the latest Cygwin DLL now defaults to ntsec *on*.
Hmm, have been trying to get my head around that one... The
Procmail man page doesn't have much on "permission" and
"ntsec" -- am I looking in the right place?
> I would check the permissions of $PMDIR, $PMDIR/procmail.log, and your
> entire $MAILDIR tree.
The binaries:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tbaker None 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /bin/procmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tbaker None 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail
$MAILDIR:
drwxr-xr-x 23 tbaker None 32768 Oct 23 10:44 e:/uc
$PMDIR:
drwxr-xr-x 2 tbaker None 4096 Oct 23 10:44 e:/u/procmail
Are these permissions set as they should be?
> A quick test would be to shutdown all Cygwin processes and set
> CYGWIN=nontsec to see if procmail starts to function properly again.
> If this "fixes" the problem, then turn ntsec back on and fix your
> permissions problem for real.
I closed all bash windows, put "export CYGWIN=nontsec" in
the profile, opened a bash window, verified with "echo $CYGWIN"
that it was indeed "nontsec", and tried Fetchmail again -- and,
as before, no Procmail log was initialized in $PMDIR, nor were
the recipes applied.
Before doing this test, however, I had captured the following
permissions for the binaries:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /bin/procmail
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail
..showing them to belong to Administ instead of tbaker.
Tom
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