On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:56, Kirk Bailey wrote: > I am using FreeBSD and sendmail to work on the internet. Recently I wrote a > program to process a incoming email and append it to a file in it's own > directory. I have a complete email in a file in the directory for testing, > and I fired it up from the command line prompt using input redirection to > draw input from the file; it worked fine. So I created an alias pointed at > it, and fired off a test message. > > Well, when the alias fed the message to it, it barked. 'unknown mailer > error 1' says the log. Ran it with the sample file, worked fine; even > modified the testcase a little, still fine. Hmmmm... So I added a line to > the script, so it would open a file and write it's current path, and very > carefully detailed EXACTLY where this file lived, having a suspicion. BARK! > Although it still barked like a dog, it gave me my confirmation; when > executed by an alias, it thinks the cwd is '/'!!! I modified the script to > point EXACTLY to the location of the recipient file of the data, and all > was now well, either way. > > HHMMMMMMMMMMMMM..... is this a freebsd quriosity, a sendmail quriosity, or > what all? And is there anything I can do so the cwd will be the dir the > script is living in?
Normal: the thought of scripts setting current directory by default is horrific! You can use something like: #!/bin/sh cd `dirname $0` pwd Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
