Re: procmail. query use of trailing :

[Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>]

Ian Balchin <inksi@imaginet.co.za> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first
> line of a procmail recipe?
>
> I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys
> and wherefores of same.


http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html

Take a look at the section headed "Explain file-locking please"

hth

Glyn
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