[Esd-l] testzip.pl error?

[John D. Hardin]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, daniel lance herrick wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Fred Laxton wrote:
> 
> > I just uploaded and installed testzip.pl, and am getting procmail
> > errors.  This is from my mailbox's procmail.log:
> >
> > /etc/procmail/testzip.pl: ^M: command not found
> > /etc/procmail/testzip.pl: use: command not found
> 
> This looks like procmail error messages about perl
> source code. Is procmail trying to interpret the
> perl script?

It looks like a corrupt script - ^M's sound like it's in DOS format,
and my analysis would be it was probably downloaded on a Windows
system and transferred to the mailserver using FTP in binary mode.

It may also have been edited in an editor that "helpfully" breaks long
lines for you without being told to do so...

Things you can try:

1) download the rule directly on the mail server using wget or a
similar tool.

2) transfer it from the Windows workstation using FTP in ASCII mode.

3) edit it with vi, issue the command ":set notextmode", and save the
file (":wq"); this will strip the ^M line endings off.

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