On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:26:54PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I'm running procmail with dropprivs=yes. There's no easy procmail thing > for (getpwnam($<)) and I do NOT feel like firing up perl on every message > to evaluate that just to figure out if I should fire up the C program that > I use so I don't have to fire up perl.
There are environment variables with this kind of info. Look at LOGNAME, for instance. Worst case, you could run "id -un" and get the information that way. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys." - Scott Adams
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