procmail, day 2

[Douglas J Hunley]

On Friday 05 April 2002 11:42, toylet.linux[?p???N] wrote:
> when working as a global procmail, where should I put these lock files?
> /var/lock? and is it necessary to use those so-called locallockfiles?

that woudl be good. system locks normally go there

>
> does sendmail guarantee that only one procmail will be active at any
> time when there is a /etc/procmailrc? This locking issue is definitely

I don't know. I dont think it would. 

> complicating my job... I have taken out all ":" in my /etc/procmailrc
> except the msgid.cache you created in the sample.

you shouldn't need them unless you are mucking with the mail itself. for just 
"stick this here, stich that there" you should be able to do away with the 
lockfiles.

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