" Did you run postalias or newaliases or whatever the appropriate command is for your MTA to update the aliases.db file? "
Thanks Mark. I think i had written the restart sendmail in a script and that had not got executed. Restarting sendmail works fine. Thanks a lot guys :) On 2/22/06, Patrick Bogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, Kannan Ekanath -- You aint any expert, if you are - "PROUD" ------------------------------------------------------ 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
