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Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:19:55PM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote:
> > This last line worked just fine for several months, until the
> > latest upgrade. The command executed is:
>
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tbaker None 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail
>
> The procmail man page says about the -d flag:
>
> -d recipient ...
> This turns on explicit delivery mode, delivery will
> be to the local user recipient. This, of course,
> only is possible if procmail has root privileges.
>
> I wonder if the default ntsec setting means he doesn't have the
> permissions to run procmail in this mode?
It seems to work now -- perhaps because "tbaker" is part of the
Administrator group (it is just my own PC, not a group server).
> There is more about the permissions requirements for explicit
> delivery mode in the man page. User has to be in /etc/passwd etc.
Tom
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