In the newer versions of sendmail, all executables to be run by sendmail
need to be in the /etc/smrsh directory and run from there.
Cheers
Jason.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Doug Balmer wrote:
> hi all,
>
> ive put
>
> thisisatest: "|/tmp/test.pl"
>
> in my /etc/aliases file and 'newalises'ed it
>
> when i send mail to here, it bounces as below. how do i make it run my
> very simple prog? btw: the prog runs fine from the command prompt
>
> snip
> -----
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "| /tmp/test.pl"
> (expanded from: thisisatest)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> sh: test.pl not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "| /tmp/test.pl"... Service unavailable
> -----
> snip
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