Fetchmail call to procmail no longer works under Cygwin 1.7.1-1
Thomas Baker
thomasbaker49@googlemail.com
Wed Feb 24 02:56:00 GMT 2010
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> 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. ;-)
Maybe along with the IBM guy who swapped Ctrl with CapsLock :-)
> Yeah, I wouldn't go that far when a symbolic link to /home/tbaker would
> suffice.
Yes indeed!
$ cd /home
$ mv TBaker TBaker.bak
$ ln -s /home/tbaker TBaker
Now everything works fine again! :-)
>> 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.
I guess that's unnecessary now...
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html>
Yes, I had indeed scanned through that bulletin but didn't
see this one coming, if it was indeed a "1.7 update" issue
at all. I guess the issues around the "missing" APLs (see above):
group:root:rwx
group:SYSTEM:rwx
turned out to be irrelevant?
> Changing the user name in '/etc/passwd' to use the proper case should
> resolve the problem though.
$ vim /etc/passwd
has apparently fixed everything. Much easier than migrating
my whole system from XP to Windows 7.
Thank you, all, for your patience and attention to detail! :-)
Tom
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