From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 17:39:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A024A14C25 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA06517; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:39:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:39:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907270039.UAA06517@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Tony Wells Subject: Re: Sendmail alias to script Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <379CC312.B692220B@journalstar.com> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980618 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/2.2.8-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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