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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> 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.

And my script needs to be world-executable and readable (chmod +xr) but 
not world-writable.  I hope staff will put a link to it on the path.

> > 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 ">"

I can also use $USER instead of `whoami`.
Is the following correct?

cat ~keesan/procmailrc.sample | sed -e "/keesan/$USER/g" >> ~/.procmailrc

There is only one occurrence of keesan.  Do I need the g?

I need to explain to people how to exit the menu system to the shell. I 
was told Bourne shell (sh?) might not run the script, but anyone who 
switched from the default shell will know how to edit already.


> -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.

So does BL, fortunately.

> Karolis