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Article #3577Problem with filter and underscores...
From: Stephen Riehm
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:15
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:15
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Hi guys 'n gals, ** PLEASE REPLY BY E-MAIL, WE DON'T GET THIS COMP.MAIL.ELM AT THIS SITE. ** I am looking for a workaround for a problem in filter. Basically the whole problem lies in the fact that we have stupid user names here, with underscores. This means that when I try to use an exec rule, with any program or script in my personal directory tree, the path gets split with a space where all the underscores were. eg: ( subject "backup" ) exec /home/ln_smr/bin/backup.report gets interpreted as: Rule 1: if (subject = "backup") then Execute /home/ln smr/bin/backup.report which results in the error "/home/ln: file not found" funny that. So, if anyone knows a workaround for this problem, which doesn't involve me getting a new user name or home directory (I have already tried) could you please let me know. I really don't want all my cron outputs in my mailbox every morning :-) thanks in advance -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Riehm Configuration Management _-_|\ ln_smr@pki-nbg.philips.de Philips Kommunikations Industrie / \ Work: +49 911 526 2975 Nu"rnberg, Germany \_.-.!/ Fax: +49 911 526 3678 "I was there, now I am here!" v "My company speaks another language, I CAN'T speak on its behalf" PS: You may think I am joking, I can't speak the language that well so PLEASE DON'T REPLY IN GERMAN! - thanks -
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!pki-nbg!pki-nbg.philips.de!ln_smr From: ln_smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Problem with filter and underscores... Message-ID: <ln_smr.728205313@pki-nbg.philips.de> Date: 28 Jan 93 07:15:13 GMT Sender: news@pki-nbg.philips.de Reply-To: ln_smr@pki-nbg.philips.de Lines: 38