Re: [Exim] Using a pipe with virtual_aliases

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Autor: Bill Moseley
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Using a pipe with virtual_aliases
Oh, sorry, this is for Exim 3.35.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> (Thanks to goggle) I have a director for virtual aliases:
>
> virtual_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> no_more
> file = /etc/exim/alias_${domain_data}
> search_type = "lsearch*"
>
>
> So I have domain specific alias files (mapped from the DOMAINS file).
>
> I'd like to have a pipe that could update the alias file, but I have not
> been able to get it to work.
>
> So in /etc/exim/alias_foo I might have:
>
> update_aliases: |/etc/exim/update_foo_aliase.pl
>
> I tried to chown the alias_foo file to "nobody" and then I set
>
> user = nobody
>
> But I end up getting:
>
> D=virtual_aliases T=address_pipe: Child process of address_pipe transport
> returned 69 (could mean service or program unavailable) from command:
> /etc/exim/update_foo_aliases.pl
>
> And that's where I'm stuck.
>
> I also wonder if I could set user = ${domain_data} above so that it
> attempts to only run as the user (as mapped by DOMAINS), if that user
> exists, otherwise bomb. That would give me some control over what domains
> can auto-update.
>
> I'm willing to listen to better ways of doing all this, too.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Bill Moseley moseley@???
>
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