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Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Mar 3 17:44:49 CET 2009


Am 03.03.2009, 16:36 Uhr, schrieb Serguei Miridonov <mirsev at cicese.mx>:

> Syslog configuration is not accessable for regular user who may run
> bogofilter with procmail on his last mail relay. So, logging to user
> file may be the only option. Well, this part of code is easiest to
> write. The only problem is locking: to avoid writing to log file from
> two bogofilters running in parallel.

That's not a problem - be sure to only ever write(2) complete messages (as  
in: lines) to the file in O_APPEND mode, then you need not do locking for  
short writes.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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