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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
