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On 23/08/12 10:07, Andrey Y. Shevel wrote:
> 
> Did you check the content of the directory /etc/smrsh ?
> 
I don't have that directory - and I don't ever recall seeing one.
What package creates it?

Anne
> Andrey
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:33:09 +0100 From: Anne Wilson
>> <[log in to unmask]> To: Gerald Waugh
>> <[log in to unmask]>, SL Users
>> <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Procmail problem
>> 
> On 21/08/12 20:02, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 08/21/2012 01:50 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> For reasons not relevant to this list, I've been using
>>>>> GMail to read my mail for a while, so I hadn't noticed that
>>>>> my local mail server now has big problems.
>>>> 
>>>>> I see mail arriving there in maillog, and my .forward file 
>>>>> passes it to procmail - but procmail appears to be not
>>>>> doing its stuff - the messages aren't being delivered at
>>>>> all.
>>>> 
>>>>> What could be wrong?
>>>> 
>>>>> Anne
>>>> What is in  your .procmailrc $HOME/.procmailrc
>>>> 
> Thanks for answering.  .procmailrc is a restored file that worked 
> perfectly before - I'll give you the details if you still want to
> see it after reading this.
> 
> Digging around in logs I found that there have been some problems
> with perl updates - and I assume that procmail is a perl app.  It
> seems likely that I messed things up when setting repo priorities,
> so I set out to clean things up.
> 
> First I removed the packages that wouldn't update, keeping a list
> so that I can restore them as soon as I have the problem sorted,
> and tweaked the priorities of rpmforge, since that seems to be the
> one that was missing out.  At first I thought that had done it, as
> I got a clean list of updates about to perform.  Unfortunately, I
> then got a transaction error -
> 
> file /sbin/extlinux from install of syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 
> conflicts with file from package
> syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
> 
> If I try to update the remaining packages as they stand at present
> I get
> 
> Error: glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686 (sl) Requires: glibc-common =
> 2.12-1.25.el6 Installed: glibc-common-2.12.1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64
> (@sl-security) glibc-common = 2.12.1.47.el6_2.5 Available:
> glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 (sl) glibc-common =
> 2.12-1.25.el6
> 
> I thought of removing glibc, again, to instantly re-install, to
> ensure I got the right version, but that promises to remove
> hundreds of packages, so I abandoned that idea.
> 
> By now I am completely out of my depth.  Is it possible to repair
> this system, or would be simpler to just abandon it, and try a
> clean install, setting up everything afresh?  I hate to be beaten,
> but a broken system is a liability.
> 
> Anne
>> 
> 

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