Re: strange error in my procmailrc

Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:03:50 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.procmail
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* @lbutlr wrote on Mon, 23 Mar 2015, at 11:22 (-0600):

> User [email protected] has a .procmailrc, processing...
> date: illegal time format
> usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
>             [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
>
> None of the other accounts with .procmailrcs log this error,
> but when I look in my .procmailrc for date:
>
> $ grep date /home/me/.procmailrc
> DATE=`date '+%d-%b-%Y'`
> MDATE=`date '+%Y-%m'`
> YDATE=`date '%Y'`

Try

YDATE=`date +'%Y'`

> LONGDATE=`date "+%y-%b-%d %I:%M:%S %z"`
> LOG="`date`${NL}Checking Spam Status... "
>   LOG="done. `date`$NL"
>   LOG="Delivered `date`$NL"
> LOG="Delivered `date`$NL”
>
> None of these seem like they should be throwing any sort of
> error.  They all execute fine from the command line and date is
> in /bin/ so I don’t think it could be a path problem. Also,
> there are not errors logged to my procmailk log file, only to
> the global log file/

The error message was clear: "illegal time format".

Regards,
Mathias

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