On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, John P. Verel said:
JPV>Running kernel 2.2.12, fetchmail 5.0.4, sendmail 8.9.3, out of the RH 6.1
JPV>box. fetchmail and sendmail work fine, delivering my mail to /var/spool/mail.
JPV>
JPV>In trying to set up procmail, I cannot get past the .forward file. I use
JPV>the following in it:
JPV>"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #root"
JPV>
JPV>(root for now, till debugged ;(
JPV>
JPV>My /var/log/maillog says (in part) stat=Service not available. If I change
JPV>.forward to:
JPV>"|exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #root"
JPV>I get stat=Service not available, PLUS smrsh:uid 8: attempt to use exec
JPV>/usr/bin/procmail #root All this while, sendmail is dutifilly bouncing my
JPV>mail.
JPV>
JPV>Permissions on .forward are -rw-r--r--, on /root are drwxr-xr-x
JPV>
JPV>I am sincerely baffled on this. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
See this...
http://www.moongroup.com/c258.html#AEN452
Example 3-13. The problem is smrsh (sendmail restricted shell). The fix is
there!
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