Procmail error

[Rem P Roberti]

> 
> > Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system:
> > 
> > I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers.  I fetch pop
> > mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong.  I just
> > installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the
> > exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved.  When I try
> > to retrieve mail I get this error message:
> > 
> > Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command
> > procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0
> > by default)))
> > 
> > I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could
> > give me a heads up on this.
> > 
> > Rem
> 
> Are you running getmail as root?

Boy, I hope not.  And I have this entry in my aliases file: 

root:	rem

so I'm not collecting mail as root.

Rem