It is getting called, if I put a sleep command in it, I can do a process
list and find it in memory.
I'm not using a forward file, I'm using a mail alias in /etc/aliases.
Thanks,
Robert Aspinall
Support Engineer
V-ONE Corporation
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From: "Michael Monaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Robert Aspinall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail w/perl
> sounds as if the perl script isn't getting called at all.
>
> If you're working on UNIX you're probably using a ".forward" file to
> forward mail to the script.
>
> Instead of forwarding the mail to the script, forward it to a regular
> email account. - and if that doesn't work then there's no way your perl
> script will be called.
>
> So try
>
> .forward:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> instead of
>
> |/export/scripts/myscript.pl (whatever)
>
>
>
> And if the email thing won't work then you've probably got a permissions
> problem on the .forward file, or its parent directory.
>
> -mm
>
> Robert Aspinall wrote:
> >
> > I have an alias that runs a perl script whenever mail is recieved for a
> > certain account, but as far as I can tell, the perl script runs without
> > doing a single thing. Is there a way to see the output of the script?
I
> > have it write "hello" to a text file (which never gets created), print
hello
> > to STDOUT, and even print hello to STDERR, and I don't see the slightest
> > peep from it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Robert Aspinall
> > Support Engineer
> > V-ONE Corporation
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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