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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:17:39AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> I have proposed this to the people at my list and asked them to make any 
> changes suitable to our system.  If the user is running the script from 
> their own directory the script could simply copy the file from my 
> directory to theirs and change the login.
> 
> What I want to do is replace keesan with their login name (I was not very 
> clear about this).  Would the following do that if run from the user's own 
> directory?

These commands should succeed if your .procmailrc and .forward files
were world-readable. chmod 644 if they are not.

> cat ~keesan/procmailrc.sample | sed -e /keesan/`whoami`/ > .procmailrc
cat ~keesan/procmailrc.sample | sed -e "/keesan/`whoami`/g" > ~/.procmailrc

This would replace all occurences of "keesan" on the line (not only the
first match) and would replace .procmailrc in the user's HOME directory,
not present working directory.

> cat ~keesan/.forward > .forward
cat ~keesan/.forward > ~/.forward
> How would I append to existing .procmailrc and .forward instead of 
> replacing/creating them?

Use ">>" instead of ">"

-snip-

> We lost the staff member who was going to write something up because he 
> got tired of the bickering among other members.  The person who helped me 
> with .procmailrc spam filter resigned at the same time.  This was shortly 
> after the two bickering members quit. (They had also quit before and asked 
> to come back.)  Are all volunteer organizations this ridiculous?

Because of things like that, I think, Slackware and Linux kernel projects
are living for so long and still are actively maintained/developed -
they both have "benevolent dictators" that prevent such quarrels.

Karolis