From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 18:03:05 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA09706 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:03:05 -0800 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA09700 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:03:04 -0800 Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14623(4)>; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:02:21 PST Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <49864>; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:02:12 -0800 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6gamma- 3/28/95 To: Stephen McKay cc: Mark Murray , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: To all the ctm'mers... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 95 18:36:32 PST." <199503290236.MAA29753@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:02:05 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <95Mar30.180212pst.49864@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199503290236.MAA29753@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> you write: >So, translating, someone like yourself could use an entry in /etc/aliases: > > ctm-cvs-cur: "| /foo/bar/ctm_incoming" > >and have /foo/bar/ctm_incoming contain something like: > > #! /bin/sh > PATH="your favourite path" > export PATH > cd /place/for/goodies || exit 1 This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Do people actually *like* seeing "Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1"? For this particular case, I would suggest "exit 72", "Critical OS file missing", or perhaps "exit 69", "Service Unavailable". (/usr/include/sys/sysexits.h) (the majordomo wrapper used to just exit(1), exit(2),... for impossible conditions. Impossible conditions happen all the time, everywhere around the world...) Bill