[clue-tech] procmail: /tmp vs /var/tmp

[Angelo Bertolli]

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:03:03PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote the following:
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>>I wanted to know where the best place to put my procmail lock file.  I'm 
>>thinking it should be /tmp and not /var/tmp because procmail shouldn't 
>>remain locked after a reboot.  Does this seem right to others?
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>>Angelo
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>Is it important to lock procmail? I'm not sure I have a lockfile set in the
>default procmail config.
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More specifically, this is a spamassassin lock file used in the procmail 
configuration that runs spamassassin.  I used to have mine in /var/tmp 
so I decided to look it up and see if that were right.

Angelo