Subject: Re: elm and procmail backup recipes

From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 18:27:48 +0200

David W. Tamkin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I think a lockfile on .safe would be a good idea, just in case mail comes
>in during the cron job:

>  lockfile .safe.lock
>  mv .safe .safe.0

That won't be needed, because even if the file is moved while procmail is
writing to it, the entire mail will end up intact in the new file (once
procmail has opened the file, you can do anything with it, except writing
to it).

-- 
Sincerely,                                  [email-masked]
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

Up your accumulator.