Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts
Miark wrote: The basic purpose of the script is to grab some information, and then mail it. In the script I'm using the following format: --- open(MAIL, | sendmail); print MAIL To: somebody\@someplace.com From: me\@mydomain.com Subject: Whatever The data goes here.; close(MAIL); --- I tried a little itty-bitty script just like this after su'ing to nobody and it did not work. But it works from the two user accounts on the box. I'm thinking it must be because the scripts are run by Apache as nobody, but at this point I'm willing to entertain any ideas. Miark, Thanks for your response! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts
Miark wrote: I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. Miark, Sometime after you've had some sleep, would you mind posting a brief explanation of what the CGI scripts have to do (or how they interact with) Postfix? Or, do they only interact with Apache, but somehow your installation of Postfix stopped them working with Apache? Trying to learn, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts
Franki, Yes, I expected my experience to be just as yours was. Doing a which on sendmail brings up /usr/sbin/sendmail and this is where sendmail is executed from in my CGI scripts. As you said, this shouldn't be affected anyway. I do still have sendmail installed but only because install instructions said I could, and recommended running both for a day or two to make sure all the old mail gets picked up. I was pretty careful to following the directions to the T. I don't think old sendmail was written over the new because it _does_ work for regular users. Or do I misunderstand? Incidentally, here is the exact test script that I'm using: #!/usr/bin/perl open(MAIL, |sendmail); print MAIL To: miark From: art\@gardnerbusiness.com Subject: test This is a test.; close MAIL; - I can run it. Art can run it. If I su to nobody, I run it, but the mail doesn't get sent. Miark One day I saw the error of my ways and took the leap, installing and configuring postfix.. All my mailing CGI scripts continued to work fine. are you sure that you have the path to sendmail in your scripts?? I would also ask if for ose reason you have both sendmail and postfix installed. if so, that is very likely your problem as its possible that the postfix/sendmail binary was replaced by the sendmail/sendmail binary, which will not work and will cause the problem you describe. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Miark wrote: I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. Miark, Sometime after you've had some sleep, would you mind posting a brief explanation of what the CGI scripts have to do (or how they interact with) Postfix? Or, do they only interact with Apache, but somehow your installation of Postfix stopped them working with Apache? Trying to learn, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts
you can have both installed, but only if they put the sendmail binary in different locations.. if they are putting then in the same place, that is the problem, it is the sendmail binary that is being used, and since it doesn't work with postfix, the mail will not be sent.. if you installed from mandrake rpms, then you have a problem... if you must have both, then get the src of postfix and configure it for a differnt sendmail binary location.. and point your scripts at that... rgds frank.. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2001 1:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Franki, Yes, I expected my experience to be just as yours was. Doing a which on sendmail brings up /usr/sbin/sendmail and this is where sendmail is executed from in my CGI scripts. As you said, this shouldn't be affected anyway. I do still have sendmail installed but only because install instructions said I could, and recommended running both for a day or two to make sure all the old mail gets picked up. I was pretty careful to following the directions to the T. I don't think old sendmail was written over the new because it _does_ work for regular users. Or do I misunderstand? Incidentally, here is the exact test script that I'm using: #!/usr/bin/perl open(MAIL, |sendmail); print MAIL To: miark From: art\@gardnerbusiness.com Subject: test This is a test.; close MAIL; - I can run it. Art can run it. If I su to nobody, I run it, but the mail doesn't get sent. Miark One day I saw the error of my ways and took the leap, installing and configuring postfix.. All my mailing CGI scripts continued to work fine. are you sure that you have the path to sendmail in your scripts?? I would also ask if for ose reason you have both sendmail and postfix installed. if so, that is very likely your problem as its possible that the postfix/sendmail binary was replaced by the sendmail/sendmail binary, which will not work and will cause the problem you describe. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Miark wrote: I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. Miark, Sometime after you've had some sleep, would you mind posting a brief explanation of what the CGI scripts have to do (or how they interact with) Postfix? Or, do they only interact with Apache, but somehow your installation of Postfix stopped them working with Apache? Trying to learn, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts
Frank, you talked me into nuking sendmail and re-installing Postfix from the tarball. It's done. The old main.cf is fine. I did a newaliases. I did a postfix reload. I have sent a few messages and they seem to be working. Some got caught in the queue earlier but they've been dribbling out slowly. (Is there a way to have postfix send everything in the queue immediately?) Anyway, the regular accounts seem fine. Unfortunately, my CGI scripts are _still_ not sending e-mail. Any other ideas? An aliases problem? Permissions? A configuration setting? What could it be?!! Thanks for your help thus far. Miark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:59 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts you can have both installed, but only if they put the sendmail binary in different locations.. if they are putting then in the same place, that is the problem, it is the sendmail binary that is being used, and since it doesn't work with postfix, the mail will not be sent.. if you installed from mandrake rpms, then you have a problem... if you must have both, then get the src of postfix and configure it for a differnt sendmail binary location.. and point your scripts at that... rgds frank.. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2001 1:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Franki, Yes, I expected my experience to be just as yours was. Doing a which on sendmail brings up /usr/sbin/sendmail and this is where sendmail is executed from in my CGI scripts. As you said, this shouldn't be affected anyway. I do still have sendmail installed but only because install instructions said I could, and recommended running both for a day or two to make sure all the old mail gets picked up. I was pretty careful to following the directions to the T. I don't think old sendmail was written over the new because it _does_ work for regular users. Or do I misunderstand? Incidentally, here is the exact test script that I'm using: #!/usr/bin/perl open(MAIL, |sendmail); print MAIL To: miark From: art\@gardnerbusiness.com Subject: test This is a test.; close MAIL; - I can run it. Art can run it. If I su to nobody, I run it, but the mail doesn't get sent. Miark One day I saw the error of my ways and took the leap, installing and configuring postfix.. All my mailing CGI scripts continued to work fine. are you sure that you have the path to sendmail in your scripts?? I would also ask if for ose reason you have both sendmail and postfix installed. if so, that is very likely your problem as its possible that the postfix/sendmail binary was replaced by the sendmail/sendmail binary, which will not work and will cause the problem you describe. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Miark wrote: I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. Miark, Sometime after you've had some sleep, would you mind posting a brief explanation of what the CGI scripts have to do (or how they interact with) Postfix? Or, do they only interact with Apache, but somehow your installation of Postfix stopped them working with Apache? Trying to learn, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts - FIXED
Hi all, The problem is fixed. For anyone interested, here's what happened. My CGI scripts were set up to use sendmail, which they should, but they also had sendmail-specific switchs added--something like /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t or somethinglike that. Anyway, Postfix didn't like the switches, so I eradicated them, and everything works beautifully. sigh Miark - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:58 AM Subject: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts Hi all, I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. The CGI scripts are set up to use /usr/sbin/sendmail. It works as normal users, but nobody (which apache runs as) can't seem to do it. I've read through the Postfix website for clues, but it's coming on 5 am and I'm about fried. If anyone has an idea, _please_ let me know at your earliest convenience. Thanks, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
