On Wed, Apr 13, 2005, ""Jesse Norell"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >> In database table dbmail-aliases i have an e-mail alias whith field >> delivery_to=|/dev/null >> When I send to this e-mail one of dbmail-lmtpd children became zombie and >> message stays in queue. >> At one time in console appear message: "sh: line 1: /dev/null: Permission >> denied" >> /dev/null has following permission: -rw-rw-rw- and owner is root, group is >> root > > That's because it's trying to execute /dev/null as a command, and it does > not have execute permissions (nor should it, as it's not an executable). > You need to run an executable program, eg. "|/bin/cat > /dev/null" or > maybe "|/bin/true". Yes, but we shouldn't be producing zombies in this situation any more than we should be an infinite memory hog if there's a delivery loop -- ideally we can debug this down to some handleable error condition. Aaron
