From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 13:20:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A409414C40 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcC-159.sub-c.lee.net [208.205.126.159]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA20017 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:23:16 -0500 Message-ID: <379CC312.B692220B@journalstar.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:20:34 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sendmail alias to script Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Thanks in advance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message