On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, dmacdoug wrote:

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:45:07PM -0500, Zhiliang Hu wrote:

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Yes I deleted it and when there is a post to the list, it is created again, with the posting in the file. [Note: (the "cat" file in the list dir has a permission 665, strange, ah? ... I have "umask 002" in my rc.init).

For whatever it's worth, my UMASK is 007. I wouldn't think anyone outside of user or group should need rights to the files created, certainly not execute rights.

My "umask 002" allows it to save archive mails with "664" permission, which allows the web server to read (this should be 666-002=664 ... but I don't know why this odd file is in a strange 665 mode). [I tried to work the httpd through shared groups but some other problems on the way]

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I am not sure if this is a good idea but should I change the ../.bin/ files to add the path to the excutables? [like "cat=/bin/cat"; now it is "cat=cat"]

Zhiliang

The problem with putting the explicit path into the variable assignment like that is that, although it might possibly avoid the error, this variable is assigned in at least half a dozen different scripts, so it would probably need to be modified everywhere. And it shouldn't be necessary. Also, it doesn't attack the root of the problem.

I suspect that, in some file which has been modified, there's an error in a procmail script which is creating this extra copy of the messages in this file.

I'm no procmail whiz, and every time I want to make one I have to relearn it, it seems, so I'm no one to follow, but I would start by looking at every file that I'd modified and doing a diff between it and an unmodified version to make sure that none of my changes, purposeful or accidental, could be doing that.

You are exactly right ... I have been doing just this. The trouble is I migrated an old list with a number of rc files brough in, and it may take somewhile to test each. I thought a sharper eye could help .. ;-)

Don

Thanks a lot! Zhiliang