>People,
>
>I am trying to execute a PERL program based on email.
>I changed /etc/aliases, to add an alias:
>emailupdate: "|/home/bsparks/emaildb/emaildb.pl"
>I tried it both with, & w/out a space after the pipe |.
>After trying: echo "try this" | mail emailupdate
>I get a mail message saying:
>sh: emaildb.pl not available for sendmail programs
>
>The script exists in the right place, has execute set for others,
>the directories all have access set for others, runs when I
>just run it as a program, etc. I've been rtfm'ing, & can't find
>any further requirements.
>
>What's happening?
>Bob Sparks
>Linux guru wannabe
What you need to do is make a link to your script in the /etc/smrsh/
directory.
It should work if you remove the full path and as root make this link:
ln -s /home/bsparks/emaildb/emaildb.pl /etc/smrsh/
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Here's what I have in mine:
ls -l /etc/smrsh/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Apr 18 14:32 parselbs.sh ->
/home/rea/bin/parselbs.sh
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Here is the reference to it from the aliase file:
lbsparse: "|parselbs.sh"
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