On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:45:53AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> This pipe isn't working for some reason. Other pipe programs seem to
> work. It's being run from the /etc/aliases file.
>
> test1234: "| /bin/cat >> /var/mail/test1234"
>
> The results are:
>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
> pipe to | /bin/cat >> /var/mail/test1234
> generated by test1234@???
> Child process of address_pipe transport returned 1 from command:
> /bin/cat
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Grepping 'man cat' (at least on FreeBSD) gives:
DIAGNOSTICS
The cat utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
So, you're cat is failing.
Run it from the command line, to see what it's complaining about.
Or turn on return_output.
Yours,
Ollie
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