[Mailman-Users] Unable to execute a script when incoming mailarrives

[kannan.ekanath at gmail.com]

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Did you run postalias or newaliases or whatever the appropriate command
is for your MTA to update the aliases.db file?
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Thanks Mark. I think i had written the restart sendmail in a script
and that had not got executed. Restarting sendmail works fine.

Thanks a lot guys :)


On 2/22/06, Patrick Bogen <pdbogen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, in some configurations (e.g., sendmail with smrsh) you may need
> to tweak your security options to make sure that somescript.sh is
> allowed to be executed in this way.
> This page talks about setting up smrsh. You can probably ignore the
> bit about reconfiguring sendmail, since we're assuming it's already
> set up that way: http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap22sec182.html
>
> - Patrick Bogen
>
> On 2/22/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> > kannan.ekanath at gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > >I added the following line /etc/aliases file,
> > >forumtest-dummymember: "|/home/kannan/scripts/somescript.sh"
> > >
> > >But the thing is it doesnt seem to call the script. Any idea why? If
> > >the script got executed it creates a dummy file in the directory. (In
> > >this case the file wasnt created).
> >
> >
> > Did you run postalias or newaliases or whatever the appropriate command
> > is for your MTA to update the aliases.db file?
> >
> > What happens to the mail sent to forumtest-dummymember?
> >
> > --
> > Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> > San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> - Patrick Bogen
>


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Regards,
Kannan Ekanath
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