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                     Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:16:58 -0400
                     From: Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net>
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                  Subject: Re: procmail: calling awk, tail, etc.
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"Peter H. Coffin" wrote:
>Eric Durant <edurant@earth.execpc.com> wrote:
>> /bin/sh: /usr/ucb/tail: No such file or directory
>> /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/awk: No such file or directory
>
>Random guess: procmail scripts are actually running on another
>machine than the shell does, and the directory structures for the
>binaries aren't the same on the machine that the mail processing is
>happening on?  I've shot myself in the foot often enough with
>.procmailrc that I can see even doing such a difference of
>organization intentionally as a security precaution...

Good guess, but a gentleman in ExecPC tech. support has confirmed that
procmail is executing on earth.  I received a message Monday morning
indicating that he was going to check with one of the sysadmins.  I'll
followup here with anything useful I learn.

Eric Durant
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