On 10 December 2001, Marc Perkel said:
> 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?
I believe Exim does *not* run your pipe through a shell by default, so
your pipe is the moral equivalent of
% cat ">>" /var/mail/test1234
cat is presumably failing because there's no such file as ">>".
You could either set use_shell on the pipe transport used for your alias
file, or set the alias to this:
test1234: "| /bin/sh -c /bin/cat >> /var/mail/test1234"
...or words to that effect. Untested, YMMV.
Greg
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