Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:39:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail alias to script Message-ID: <199907270039.UAA06517@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <379CC312.B692220B@journalstar.com>
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In article <379CC312.B692220B@journalstar.com> you wrote: > Maybe someone who knows more about sendmail than me can help, > > I'm trying to setup a mail alias that gets piped to a perl script. Here > is the line in my /etc/aliases file: > testboy: "| /var/dev/bin/test.pl" > > And here is the response I get: > 550 /var/dev/bin/test.pl... Can't create output: Permission denied > > I seem to remember there is some security thingy that restricts where > scripts can live when invoked by sendmail. It does not look like the right error, but see: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.11 -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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