Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 39093
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2005/8/11-13 [Computer/Networking] UID:39093 Activity:low
8/10    I've been getting the following message
            nslookup: Can't open nslookup: No such file or directory
        dozens of times in my .procmailrc log file since the new disk was
        installed.  All mail seems to be delivered fine.  Anyone have
        any ideas what this is about?
        \- you're not trying to run nslookup in any dotfiles that might be
           sourced, are you?
        \_ I looked more closely.  I have some stuff I got from I don't
           even know where.  It's a spambouncer script that I called from
           .procmailrc.  There are the following lines:
                :0
                * NSLOOKUP ?? ^^^^
                { NSLOOKUP="nslookup -timeout=5 -retry=2" }
           To be honest, I'm not even sure what this does, but it didn't
           give me any problems before.  But in the last 6.5 days, I've
           gotten 166 occurances of it in my log file.  -op
           \- why dont you use an absolute path for nslookup
              \_ because, to be honest, I don't even know what it's
                 doing or what the absolute path is.  Can anyone out
                 there educate me?  -op
                 \_ Change
                      "nslookup
                    to
                      "/usr/sbin/nslookup
                 \_ Looks like it's trying to reject mail from machines
                    with invalid hostnames.
                    \_ What would happen if I just removed those lines?
                       Also, is it likely that each time I get the error
                       that an email is not going through? -op
                       \_ Nothing will happen if you remove them.  You
                          probably shouldn't have stuff in your .procmailrc
                          that you don't understand.  -tom
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