phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (07/12/90)
The error is not obvious (and the error messages give no details) so I cannot figure out why it does not work. Can anyone here see anything obvious to this? Script started on Wed Jul 11 14:15:42 1990 Mail in /usr/spool/mail/phil. phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 1> ls -l .filter-rules -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 375 Jul 11 14:13 .filter-rules phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 2> cat .filter-rules #!/bin/cat # ~/.filter-rules # sender = "irclist-request@tolsun.oulu.fi" ? save "/cso/staff/phil/.mail/irc" to = "gif@lut.fi" ? save "/cso/staff/phil/.mail/gif" to = "tiff@ucbvax.berkeley.edu" ? save "/cso/staff/phil/.mail/tiff" from = "hazards@vaxf.colorado.edu" ? save "/cso/staff/phil/.mail/drc" sender = "3d-request%bfmny0@uunet.uu.net" ? save "/cso/staff/phil/.mail/3d" phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 3> filter -r filter (phil): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (phil): Couldn't get rules! phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 4> exit phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 5> script done on Wed Jul 11 14:16:19 1990 --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> | no matter what the particular issue is all about.
peterson@pipe.cs.fsu.edu (Eric J. Peterson) (07/12/90)
+-- phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: | | The error is not obvious (and the error messages give no details) so I cannot | figure out why it does not work. Can anyone here see anything obvious to this? | | phil@ux1:/cso/staff/phil 1> ls -l .filter-rules | -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 375 Jul 11 14:13 .filter-rules Well, the error is that filter cannot find your rules file. In previous versions of Elm, the rules were put in ~/.filter-rules. Now, I believe they are in the file ~/.elm/filter-rules. Eric -- Eric Peterson <> peterson@nu.cs.fsu.edu <> gatech!nu.cs.fsu.edu!peterson FSU CS Systems Support Group * Room 011 Love Bldg * (904) 644-7339 "What you are is what you are is what you are SO WHAT?" - The Respectables