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.

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