Re: [exim] Address_Pipe :: child process of address_pipe tra…

Hi Phil,

Thank you so much, So much information provided, Really hopeful to solve
this problem and many others in the future,

Just thank you for taking so much time to help, People like yourself
that makes this world livable.

Have a great day.

- Kyle

Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-02-02 at 10:49 +0200, Kyle Vorster wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply, When running the code in console I get no errors,
>> "Exact script was running fine on another server" and the only thing
>> that changed was exim.
>>
>> So thats the confusing bit.
>>
>
> "echo $?" after running the script, to see what the return value was.
> Often, it's useful to put the return value of the previous command into
> your prompt. In bash, just put the $? in as a literal, in zsh you can
> use '%?', etc.
>
> In Unix, a command which returns non-zero is indicating that it failed.
> In fact, this is part of the C programming language standard and so even
> more widespread than Unix.
>
> Software which ignores errors leads to undiagnosed problems which are
> hard to debug. So Exim carefully checks the return value from the
> pipeline command. Some other software is not so careful.
>
> If you're very sure that the command is good and want to stop Exim from
> looking at the return value, then:
>
> (a) On your head be it
> (b) Add the "ignore_status" option to the pipe transport
>
> Exim very rarely ever stops you from doing something, it just has very
> sane defaults.
>
> -Phil
>
>