On Thu, 11 May 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Marilyn Davis wrote:
>
> > > That is why it says "neither action flags nor mail addresses given".
> >
> > But the message it is sending looks so exim-generated.
>
> Absolutely. There are two instances of Exim running here:
>
> Original message -> Exim(1) -> the script -> whatever -> Exim(2)
>
> Exim(2) is called when a new message is being generated. Now, it appears
> that Exim(2) is called without any options or arguments in the command.
> So it barfs, and writes to stderr the following line:
>
> > exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given
>
> and terminates with an error code. It seems that stderr is still the
> same file that was set up by Exim(1) to catch any output from the
> script. So Exim(1) sees this output and thinks "oho! - this script has
I see. So it's happening in "fence" because eVote_script2 changes
stderr.
I'll change stderr first and then maybe see what's happening -- if it
happens again.
Thanks so much for the big hint.
And thank you again Jeffrey Goldberg for your thoughts too.
Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
eVote - online polling software for email lists
http://www.deliberate.com
marilyn@???
+1 650 965-7121 (USA)
> fallen over because it's generated output that wasn't expected. I'd
> better mail that back to the sender". So it generates the bounce message
> you see.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Philip
>
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