Thank you very much for your help.
"exim -d2 -bt the.test@ddress" made the problem obvious. I had
put the alias in /etc/aliases.mycommand, but also left a duplicate
alias in /etc/aliases. Exim used the system_aliases director first,
searched /etc/aliases, successfully found the alias, and reported
that no user/group had been set. Commenting the "mycommand" alias
out of /etc/aliases fixed this.
(Exim then puked on my alias which was a pipe through a command
and then a pipe into another command. After fixing that everything
is working perfectly.)
I do want an additional director for the "mycommand" alias because
I didn't want to set user/group on everything in /etc/aliases.
Thanks again,
Dee Jay
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Dee Jay Randall wrote:
> >
> > I want to set up a system alias that pipes the message to a
> > command. How do I do this?
> >
> > I've stuck the following in my /etc/exim.conf
> >
> > > mycommand_aliases:
> > > user = nobody
> > > group = nogroup
> > > driver = aliasfile
> > > file_transport = address_file
> > > pipe_transport = address_pipe
> > > file = /etc/aliases.mycommand
> > > search_type = lsearch
> >
> > After restarting exim (running in daemon mode), when I send
> > a message to the alias, I get a paniclog entry "Neither the
> > system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a
> > uid for local delivery of | command".
>
> What output do you get from "exim -bt the.test@ddress"? Use -d2 (or
> higher) on that command to find out which director is being used. Is it
> the correct one? (The answer is "no" because your error message mentions
> the system_aliases director, not "mycommand_aliases".)
>
> Your question shows some confusion, because you mention "system
> aliases", and yet you have a different director. What is in
> /etc/aliases.mycommand? It should be a second alias file, e.g. lines
> like
>
> the.alias: |/some/command
>
> but I have a suspicion it might be the command itself. If it is the
> command itself, you need, in /etc/aliases
>
> the.alias: /etc/aliases.mycommand
>
> and then you need to put pipe_transport, user, and group on the
> system_aliases director. You do not need this additional director.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
